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Standing on the shifting sands
Luca Brandi
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,870
Hephaestus
Francisco Santos
Painting - 80.3 x 80.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.6 x 31.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,400
Just Future Rising (set x2)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 92 x 0.1 cm Print - 24 x 36.2 x 0 inch
$614
Abysse - LC73
Landry Clément
Sculpture - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$4,588
Reflections of Europe, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
1902 Americacentric map of the world
Marco Araldi
Painting - 61 x 82 x 6 cm Painting - 24 x 32.3 x 2.4 inch
$3,402
Rêve de scène II
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$134
The three graces temple
Marco Araldi
Painting - 76 x 48 x 5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 18.9 x 2 inch
$2,355
No 81 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 84 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$2,925
Coucher de soleil
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
White Top 41, Black Bottom 21
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 67 x 61 x 15 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 24 x 5.9 inch
$6,173
Way of the Waterfall
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,602
Natura morta orientale
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 45 x 51 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 20.1 x 0.2 inch
$781
Manifestation: Cherryblossom Girl
Eury Kim
Painting - 90.9 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,233
The Hibiscus
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$3,237
Weathered Meadow
Lorna Holdcroft - Kirin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,617
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 62.5 x 48 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.6 x 18.9 inch
$4,465
I'll hold you forever
Barbara Piller
Painting - 120 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,730
Rue Norvins Montmartre
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$726
Put Your Ear to the Shell
Brian Matthew Truesdale
Painting - 152.4 x 167.6 x 3.81 cm Painting - 60 x 66 x 1.5 inch
$10,253
XX164175
Pierre Muckensturm
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$726
Salle d'attente
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
Metamorphosis
Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze
Painting - 115 x 165 x 4 cm Painting - 45.3 x 65 x 1.6 inch
$4,856
Ceci n'est pas une pomme
René Magritte
Print - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$781 $703
Tidal Estuary
Lorna Holdcroft - Kirin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,878
XSmall Stainless Steel Bear
Irena Tone
Sculpture - 22 x 13 x 14 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.1 x 5.5 inch
$563
Small Stainless Steel Bear 'Grace'
Irena Tone
Sculpture - 20.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 5.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,060
It's Not a Party Until Someone Falls in the Pool
Carrie Graber
Print - 58.4 x 91.4 cm Print - 23 x 36 inch
$1,000
Fickle Memory 08
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.8 x 103 x 3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$893
Fickle Memory 04
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$893
Fickle Memory 01
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 103 x 72.8 x 3 cm Photography - 40.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$893
Fossile univers
Jean-Pierre Petit
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,340
Hipster in Stone VIII, Hoplite standing
Léo Caillard
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,019
Fleur de mon coeur
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,902
Femme au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$614
Bauhaus. Mr Klee and Mr Kandinsky
Slawomir Kuszczak
Painting - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,679
Le temps d'un bouquet
Nadine Pillon
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$949
Et mon cœur te dit !
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 90 x 60 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$1,652
Fretillements
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 146 cm Painting - 19.7 x 57.5 inch
$2,188
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!