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Monkey and Kangoroo
Anyck Alvarez Kerloch
Painting - 30.5 x 19.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 7.8 x 0.2 inch
$215
Lilies from my garden
Elena Shichko
Painting - 45.5 x 63 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 24.8 x 0 inch
$491
Jour de marché
Jean-Guy Nakars
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$390
Casino Mauresque Arcachon
Georges Corominas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$15,349
Midnight Shore
Shawn Marshall
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$3,275
Lola sleeping
Helen Uter
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$536
Le bouquet de maman !
Noël Granger
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,005
Frozen trees 7
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 26 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$391
Impression #1
Karine Nicolleau
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$279
The Creator Gives, I Give
Elijah Emmanuel Wilson
Painting - 55.88 x 30.48 x 3.175 cm Painting - 22 x 12 x 1.3 inch
$3,516
Les aventures de Badassbear
Zach (Oreo)
Painting - 82 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Respiciens ad me
Simão Sa Silva
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,684
Giroflée embrasée
Coline Potier
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.05 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$413
La fusée de Leonard
Daniel Pessel
Sculpture - 82 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$13,395
Le moulin rouge
Francis Apesteguy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$547
Le vaisseau fantôme
Francis Apesteguy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$547
Doll mouth (infant)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
Doll mouth (tongue)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
Doll mouth (boy with teeth)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
Doll mouth (open)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 99.1 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$4,242
Doll mouth (open)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
Doll mouth (cupie)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 99.1 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$4,242
Doll mouth (cupie)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,902
A people’s history (Riel)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 53.3 x 73.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$3,907
A people’s history (Night, Pine Island)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 53.3 x 73.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$3,907
Mickey Blooming Bear
Blooming Bears
Sculpture - 50 x 33 x 23 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13 x 9.1 inch
$6,125
Orchidée
Thaddée
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 12.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.9 x 0.1 inch
$167
Rolling Hheather, Painting, Oil on HDF
Gary Westall
Painting - 24.1 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$405
Danza Erótica (Diptych)
Agustina Barilá Aloi
Painting - 97.5 x 137 cm Painting - 38.4 x 53.9 inch
$831
La faiseuse de lumière
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,126
Arpèges nocturnes
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,242
Via pescherie vecchie
Rocío Soriano
Painting - 43.5 x 39.2 x 1 cm Painting - 17.1 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$313
Bonbon verre de Murano rouge et jaune
Laurence Jenk
Sculpture - 51 x 22 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 8.7 x 8.7 inch
$27,907
El jardín de la muerte
Angelica Briones
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.81 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$12,446
JM Basquiat-GB1
Giuliano Bekor
Photography - 127 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 inch
$24,500
Conversation avec la lune
Alessandro Montalbano
Sculpture - 40 x 28 x 35.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11 x 14 inch
$15,441
Jaguar E Type
Antoine Dufilho
Sculpture - 18 x 36 x 80 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 14.2 x 31.5 inch
$26,791
The clock butterfly
Federico Cortese
Painting - 24.9 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$180
Snowflake with fish
Federico Cortese
Painting - 35.1 x 35.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$330
Bald man in a bubble bath
Edward Zelinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.2 inch
$500
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!