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Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming)
Justine Nakamarra
Painting - 30 x 30 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
£311
Dream City
Mamadou Cisse
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0.4 inch
£2,666
Philosophical Doubt Smurf - Schtroumpfs
Javier Molinero - Bruto
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£222
Citta Samtana Diptych 295
James Verbicky
Print - 112 x 150 x 5 cm Print - 44.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
£26,538
Cherries in glass bowl
Ekaterina Gasmi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£6,043
Vénus Médusa
Claire Courdavault
Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 25.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.2 x 10 inch
£355
The Fun Archaeology #1 - “Bosom Oddities”
Thomas Mailaender
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£71
Patrick Zachmann, So Long, China - Édition limitée
Patrick Zachmann
Photography - 32 x 20 x 6 cm Photography - 12.6 x 7.9 x 2.4 inch
£355
The Continuous Metamorphical Rebel Image of Kryston Kitch
G Imaginations
Sculpture - 45.72 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
£3,733
Miss Bomb - Camp-belle's Yellow anger
Dom'One
Sculpture - 71 x 33 x 33 cm Sculpture - 28 x 13 x 13 inch
£2,222
Experience optique _04
Tatiana Lebedev
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 2 inch
£2,133
Ellis
Cyril Raymond
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
£355
Duel d'après le film de Steven Spielberg, 1971
Fabrice Montignier
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 37 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.4 inch
£347
Arsenik - Quelques gouttes suffisent...
La Main Gauche
Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.4 x 12.4 x 0.2 inch
£311
Zero point #S2020-02g
Tine Wilde
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,689
Vanité 2
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£622
Pair of table lamps Nautilus Moritz Hacker ca
Moritz Hacker
Design - 37 x 24 x 14 cm Design - 14.6 x 9.4 x 5.5 inch
£15,819
Mirror Dagobert Peche Wiener Werkstatte ca.
Dagobert Peche
Design - 47.5 x 46 x 9 cm Design - 18.7 x 18.1 x 3.5 inch
£57,766
Comtesse PiouPiou
Valentine Burlan
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£70
Still life
The Antic Staatsoper
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
£222
Senti come suona il tun tun di Cinzia
Chiara Scarpone
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
£355
Super lucky Neonka, Happy version
Lalasaïdko
Print - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£347
Si Dios hubiera piantado el peras en el Eden en lugar del manzano no habria tal inferno
Kobra & Walsh
Print - 60 x 43 x 1 cm Print - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
£160
Chez rose - 10
Nicolas Blin
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0.1 inch
£302
So Near, So Far 2.
Petr Strnad
Photography - 33.3 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.1 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£142
Respirer
Fanny Gosse
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£311
Le passeur et l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
£444
Carnaval du Roi et de la Reine
Ivan Messac
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£2,133
We are not followers
Philippe Liveneau LENY
Print - 150 x 100 x 7 cm Print - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
£2,222
We are not followers
Philippe Liveneau LENY
Painting - 150 x 100 x 7 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
£2,222
Wall Paper, Like a Paradise
Benoit Hapiot
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£133
Markt Numegen
Leo Gestel
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 8 x 0.4 inch
£8,293
Le Musset, Paris - Limited Edition Print
Ruslana Levandovska
Print - 66 x 53.3 x 0.8 cm Print - 26 x 21 x 0.3 inch
£498
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!