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Sue Rosalind Vesely
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,870
Les impromptus du matin - Colombine
Valerio Adami
Print - 21 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 6.1 x 0 inch
$787
Ready to start again (1)
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 62 x 90 x 3.3 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 1.3 inch
$697
Epitafos and Etapas 1-3
Alejandro Valencia
Sculpture - 96.5 x 24.1 x 7.6 cm Sculpture - 38 x 9.5 x 3 inch
$1,500
Retour de la Lumière
Valérie Maurand
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,798
D'après Hundertwasser
Valérie Maurand
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,405
Richard Wagner
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
$3,933
Jeune fille au bain 2
Vanessa Dakinsky
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,023
Le misure, il cielo IV
Walter Valentini
Print - 112 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 44.1 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,511
Valet de la comtesse
Tadeusz Kantor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$4,719
The Artist and The Sea
Erni Vales
Painting - 46 x 117 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 46.1 x 1.2 inch
$7,585
Les gosses de la plage
Valérie Betoulaud
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,259
Baiser laser
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$3,259
Wave theory 004
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$115
Un amour de parapluie
Valérie Dragacci
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Spéciale Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jean Tourlonias
Painting - 65 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,719
L'Endormie
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,641
New - York Manhattan
Valerie Le Meur
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,922
Les Iles Sanguinaires
Valérie Dragacci
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
Very difficult ease.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,200
Présence illusoire
Shoïchi Hasegawa
Print - 57.5 x 75.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.6 x 29.7 x 0.1 inch
$674
Le bal de l'araignée
Damienne Valentin
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$730
Étude de la mer
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,854
Piaf révolution s rose fluo
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 16 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$663
Life is change, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christian Valentine
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$700
Dryads - limited edition of 11
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$898
Un été pas comme les autres
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 13.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$663
Marble House
Pauline Di Valentin
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$674
Time begins again
Christian Valentine
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 1 inch
$520
Melon et tranche
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,657
L'écaille, le chardonneret et la grappe de raisin
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,657
Pot, deux pommes, poire
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 27 x 41 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,714
Le cardinal à la coupe de raisin
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,657
Le chardonneret à la grenade No 2
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 24 x 19 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,405
Le Martin-pêcheur aux iris des marais
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 33 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,657
Le bouvreuil aux fraises
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 24 x 19 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,405
Le Martin-pêcheur à la tulipe
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,680
L'écureuil à la botte d'asperges
Valéry Vecu Quitard
Painting - 35 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,657
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!