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La magie des lucioles
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£267
Pigments de ciel
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
£267
Plume du Poëte
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
£267
Sentinelle de Loire
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£355
Anno del Cane Giallo
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 29 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
£347
Pourquoi être belle si je te plais
Eric Ullrich
Painting - 91 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
£2,400
Blues d'Eiffel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£258
Il imagine
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
£489
Tropicarios #1
Paloma Castello
Photography - 54.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.6 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Tropicarios #5
Paloma Castello
Photography - 54.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.6 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Tropicarios #6
Paloma Castello
Photography - 54.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.6 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Tropicarios #7
Paloma Castello
Photography - 54.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.6 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Tropicarios #3
Paloma Castello
Photography - 55 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.64 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Tropicarios #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 54.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.6 x 33 x 0.1 inch
£829
Le Monsieur de Borias a marié sa fille
Yves Calméjane
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,582
Conquête des congères 1
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£622
Untitled
Verena Waddell
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch
£1,777
The… Long Good… Bye... v1.12
LosOtros blank
Print - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£853
Herrings on Ice
Tommi Anttonen
Photography - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£1,777
L'esprit de la paix
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£711
Ponte Vecchio
Janice Alamanou
Photography - 48.5 x 64.5 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.1 x 25.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,600
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 74 & 75
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Print - 42 x 59.4 x 1 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0.4 inch
£613
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 12 & 13
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Print - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
£524
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 86
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Print - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
£613
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 72
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Print - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
£524
L'incinérateur d'Ivry sur Seine
Bault
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,844
Lineal Black / Blue / Yellow
Ana María Nava
Sculpture - 53 x 11 x 8 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 4.3 x 3.1 inch
£5,110
Lineal Blue / Yellow
Ana María Nava
Sculpture - 21 x 40 x 8 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 15.7 x 3.1 inch
£5,110
Manchas de luz I
Ana María Nava
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
£6,177
Paralelas Vibrantes
Jesús-Rafael Soto
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 24 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 9.4 inch
£12,442
Promenade à la fête foraine
Adolfo Carducci
Painting - 40 x 55.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.9 x 0.2 inch
£728
Attablés en terrasse
Adolfo Carducci
Painting - 33 x 46 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
£683
Opus 101
Alexandre Richelieu-Beridze
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£5,777
Population 26 09 1976 Population d'images
Maurice Rapin
Painting - 31.5 x 44 cm Painting - 12.4 x 17.3 inch
£955
Population 20 11 1976, Population d'images
Maurice Rapin
Painting - 31.5 x 44 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12.4 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
£955
Chalet en montagne
Louis Henri Salzmann
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£701
Sans titre
Lesly Pierre Paul
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
£1,155
Sans titre
Lesly Pierre Paul
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 47 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 18.5 inch
£1,066
Sans titre
Lesly Pierre Paul
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 17.7 inch
£1,066
L'homme dragon Yong
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
£1,600
La plume - Série Les Caprices de Madame Bovary
Takala
Photography - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£667
L'homme Pieuvre
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.2 x 0 inch
£711
Contemporary artworks for sale
Over 200,000 pieces. That's the number of contemporary artworks and design objects currently available on Artsper. Every day, new artists and galleries from all over the world join us and trust us to showcase their work. On Artsper, all mediums have a place of choice: painting, drawing, photography, editions and sculpture.
The generic term "contemporary art" refers to all works produced in the recent period, that is to say between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. However, there is not only one type of contemporary art. It can cover as many forms as there are artists, if not more. Contemporary art, while taking into account the individualities and the cultural specificities, takes life at the world level, in a globalized society and constantly in movement. Thus, the materials used, the processes of creation and the subjects treated by the contemporary art works often reflect these interconnections. But one constant remains, artists perpetually question the established artistic order.
Even if they are often confused, there are many differences between modern and contemporary art, notably the idea that contemporary art works are more conceptual and privilege the creative idea to the support used.
Nevertheless, the distinction between these two movements can also be purely temporal. Any work realized after 1945 can be called "contemporary". At the beginning of the 20th century, the movements followed one another according to the revolutionary reflections of the great masters of Surrealism (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger) and Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp). From the 1950s and 1960s, artists pushed the reflection on abstraction even further. This is the birth of minimalist art as well as conceptual art. In opposition to the abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, the leaders of these movements are notably Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt.
Pop art is one of the first artistic movements to emerge from contemporary art. It was the work of a whole generation caught up in the whirlwind of consumer society. Pop art uses new technologies and very bright colors to portray (sometimes ironically) this globalized world in transition. The precursors of this pictorial technique are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, whose modern paintings represent icons of the time such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.
Born in the 1960s in Philadelphia, street art became popular in the 1980s. Illegal and controversial at first, it now occupies a major place in modern art museums, galleries and private collections. Paintings, stencil drawings, collages, sculpture, tags, graffiti... On Artsper, discover original contemporary artworks as well as prints by the greatest street artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), JonOne, Aiko, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol and many others. But our catalog also highlights young stars and talents of the emerging scene, such as Death NYC or Jérôme Mesnager.
Today, contemporary art exists in many forms, more or less inspired by the movements that have shaped modern history. The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a multidisciplinary creation, an interest for creation coming from the four corners of the world, and the emergence of markets on different continents. Contemporary artworks also denote a meteoric growth in digital art, as evidenced by the recent boom in NFTs and AI (artificial intelligence)-generated art. As with all art forms, we see a globalized interest in innovative and disruptive contemporary artworks as much as in work that aims to revive the more traditional forms of fine art.
Whether you're a budding collector or a seasoned buyer, a home decorator or an art history buff, now is the time to express your personality by exploring the collections of our 1,800 partner galleries, which are constantly being updated with new works of contemporary art. Your perfect piece is waiting for you, now it's up to you to find it!