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Deseo Insular XIV
José Sierra
Photography - 91.4 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,659
Shreds of Memory I
Jakub Pasierkiewicz
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,100
Bleu Léman | Vevey Suisse
Gwenaël Bollinger
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£697
Deseo Insular IV
José Sierra
Photography - 69.9 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,659
Deseo Insular XII
José Sierra
Photography - 69.9 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,659
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
£188
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£1,500
Noel Coward's Eye, #2257
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 152.4 x 135.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 53.5 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
That beach
Corinne Dubreuil
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
£1,340
Contemplum #017
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£759
Contemplum #003
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£804
Lover Man Oh Where Can You Be?
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 152.4 x 135.9 x 5.1 cm Photography - 60 x 53.5 x 2 inch
£4,147
Noir 01 “Black River”
Hengki Koentjoro
Photography - 43 x 43 x 0.02 cm Photography - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0 inch
£849
Still Cassius Clay V
Gerry Cranham
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
£884
Without title (TP09AP11)
Teresa Pera
Painting - 76.5 x 58 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30.1 x 22.8 x 0 inch
£875
Desvelando Gaudí 02
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
£536
Jane, spikes, white rabbit
David Martin
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£758 £683
Francis Joyon
Christophe Paucelier
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£849
Le grand saut
Joost Wensveen
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
£1,384
Perspective d'animal
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
£1,340
Personnage en colère
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 23 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 9.1 inch
£983
Morphogenetic field - Beluga caviar
Seb Janiak
Photography - 110 x 110 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 inch
£4,400
Without title
Josep María Codina
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 24 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£581
La mouche bleue (The Blue Fly)
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£670
Without title
Josep María Codina
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 16 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.4 inch
£581
Estrat-Grafia 5
Josep María Codina
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 25 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 9.8 x 2 inch
£598
La Mouche - The Fly
Alex Konahin
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 33 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13 x 0.4 inch
£1,786
Painting research 4
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£4,287
Reciprocity 8
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
£849
Dirty Harry
Bze Bzeland
Fine Art Drawings - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
£179
Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
£4,823
Reciprocity 7
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,340
Bords de Clain - Poitiers
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 59 x 120 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.2 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
£759
Montbernage - Poitiers
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 59 x 120 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.2 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
£759
Sans titre
Benoît Mauduech
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£732
Manifest 1
Margaret Neill
Fine Art Drawings - 74.93 x 106.68 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 42 inch
£1,950
Liberté - Potiers
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 59 x 118 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.2 x 46.5 x 0.1 inch
£759
Portrait of a Believer
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 1 inch
£447
Personnage au discours fumeux
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 9.4 inch
£1,117
Untitled
Doïna Vieru
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 117 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 46.1 x 0 inch
£2,680
Untitled
Doïna Vieru
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£3,037 £2,581
Street XV
Maurice Douard
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.5 inch
£1,340
Accident
Alexandre Taillandier
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 54 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
£893
Untitled
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 inch
£71
Reciprocity2
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,340
Aquarelle graphique 5
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 36 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
£715
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!