Books
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Save your search to find it quickly
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Bouquet de fleurs
Louis Henri Salzmann
Painting - 39.5 x 34.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15.6 x 13.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,067
Lisa Marie Simpson
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,592
If Anyone Would like To jump on The Page
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 23 x 31 cm Painting - 9.1 x 12.2 inch
$447
Lemons & books - Italian painting still life
Andrea Borella
Painting - 80 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$783
Une histoire sans fin
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,116
Loturak vs Lokarriak Mixed Media Painting
Alberto Letamendi
Painting - 88.9 x 115.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 45.5 x 2 inch
$7,000
Hell is Empty
The Connor Brothers
Painting - 20 x 14 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 inch
$2,796
The book is an open window
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,185
Des fleurs pour Algernon
Cédric Quissola
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,063
Créateur d'étoiles
Cédric Quissola
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,063
Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 115.3 x 150.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 45.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$6,500
Un moment à soi
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,254
Une page d’histoire…
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 118 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,199
Is it not better, then, to be alone (…)? - Hommage à George Gordon Byron, author of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,
Damian Bak
Painting - 190 x 115 x 5 cm Painting - 74.8 x 45.3 x 2 inch
$7,829
Still life with lamp and book
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$280
Etude with a blue book
Galya Popova
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
Bouquet de lilas blanc et pivoines roses
Gabriel Edouard Haberjahn
Painting - 36 x 49 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,364
Nature morte au béret de marin, chope de bière, longue pipe et livres
Hermann Haller
Painting - 69.5 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 27.4 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,216
Antique trophy & three books
Christopher Stott
Painting - 38.1 x 38.1 x 3.81 cm Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.5 inch
$3,372
Green clock & antique book
Christopher Stott
Painting - 38.1 x 38.1 x 3.81 cm Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.5 inch
$3,372
N° 1124 Elle, à cinq ans, avec ses bons amis.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 46 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
Patterns of Force
Kevin Frank
Painting - 30 x 55.88 x 3.81 cm Painting - 11.8 x 22 x 1.5 inch
$8,419
Ocean of knowledge
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 88.9 x 114.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 45 x 0.1 inch
$12,000
One book after the other
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 76 x 56 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch
$895
Avec Mona Lisa
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 46 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,968
Bain de soleil
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$13,645
Mais ce n'était que le soleil
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 54 x 81 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 inch
$14,764
Nature morte au bouquet, livre, pipe et fruits
Piero Poraccia
Painting - 82 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,254
Les echos de la litterature
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
Sold
Books
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!