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Nocturno 2
Juan Manuel Arruabarrena
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,063
El corredor de agapantos 1
Claudia Guerrini
Painting - 22 x 22 x 0.01 cm Painting - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$917
Miles Davis - at the Talk Stoop on 312 W. 77th St. NYC, his home 1970
Glen Craig
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$1,500
Playas en el mar de Seto
Isabel Momparler
Painting - 89 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,237
Particles of life
Milena Mladenova
Painting - 25 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
In the land of wild strawberries
Silvana Ilieva
Painting - 40 x 90 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$828
1+3
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,454
Segni di fine estate
Valeria Zaccheddu
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$671
Portrait of spring
Viet Ha Tran
Photography - 119.9 x 87.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 34.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Invisibile words (In between)
Gugi Goo
Painting - 119.4 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$1,094
Abstraction with Pink
Frédérique Marteau
Painting - 19 x 24 x 2.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 1 inch
$1,107
Rejoicing
Haibat Balaa Bawab
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,600
What You See is Up To You No. 3
Gabrielle Nisenboim
Painting - 38 x 76 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 29.9 x 0.6 inch
$2,103
Journey Through ...
Gladys Abrahante
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 35 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,585
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Artur Murle
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$895
Figure
Robert Luis Nicoidski
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 6.9 x 0 inch
$693
Relief en bronze VIII
Max Ernst
Sculpture - 34.2 x 39.2 x 0.2 cm Sculpture - 13.5 x 15.4 x 0.1 inch
$7,606
Cambodge Rizière - Série Paysage d'Asie
Marie-Thérèse Chanel
Painting - 61 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,309
Chemin de Jaques
Jean-Marc Amigues
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,033
The Third Eye of Ignorance
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$895
Caballero das dúas Caras
José Antonio Fondevila
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 8.3 inch
$671
Fleeing to Egypt
Eugenio Larminiani
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 0 inch
$1,678
What happen on earth stays on earth
Otto Constantin
Sculpture - 72 x 53 x 0.5 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
$3,915
Rostros sin rostro 11-3
José Manuel Chamorro Chamorro
Painting - 73 x 116 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 inch
$2,237
Sin titulo / Sans titre
Julio Alonso Yañez
Painting - 150 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,901
Love is a river
Benoit Ruff
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$391
Terrasse Théâtre
Julien Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 100 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 39.4 inch
$2,796
Jardins villa Barbarigo (Série reflets)
Ellen Geerts
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$783
Beach in Venice. Lady with the Yellow Hat
Emma Visca
Painting - 75 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$895
Can you sense the atmosphere I
Heini Turunen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,013
Le bal des années 60
Zica Bérgami
Painting - 35 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,454
Untitled
Ossip Zadkine
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 45 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$13,422
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!