Travel Painting for Sale

The theme of travel occupies an essential place in contemporary painting as an open motif that evokes not only physical movement, but also mental wandering, the desire for elsewhere, and an inner quest. Inherited from the great Romantic landscapes of the nineteenth century, where artists such as J. M. W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot transformed movement through space into a vehicle for emotion and the sublime, it also draws from scenes of urban modernity and representations of transportation that accompanied the acceleration of the industrial and contemporary world.

Trains, roads, ports, airports, and marine or urban horizons become narrative spaces onto which universal experiences of departure, waiting, transition, and discovery are projected. Travel in painting is never limited to simple topography: it engages reflections on time, memory, and the transformation of perception through contact with the unknown, on what it means to cross a space and bring back a visual trace of it.

From the Impressionists, fascinated by the changing light of passing landscapes, to contemporary artists who fragment or abstract territories in order to convey a sensory experience rather than a faithful description, the motif of travel has generated some of the richest visual explorations in art history.

On Artsper, this selection brings together works that explore different visions of travel between figuration and abstraction, demonstrating the ability of a universal theme to endlessly renew itself through the diversity of contemporary artistic perspectives and visual languages.

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Painting, Kinh, Seaty

Seaty

Painting . 113 x 105 x 2 cm Painting . 44.5 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch

€10,000

Painting, Passage Interdit, Cope2

Cope2

Painting . 9 x 75 x 3 cm Painting . 3.5 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch

€850

Painting, L'heure bleue, Albena Vatcheva

Albena Vatcheva

Painting . 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€2,695 €2,561

Painting, Dublin, Louis Besnier

Louis Besnier

Painting . 61 x 46 x 3 cm Painting . 24 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch

€800

Painting, Tourist Penguino, Penguino

Penguino

Painting . 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting . 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch

€800

Painting, Going Home, Luong Trung

Luong Trung

Painting . 50 x 77 x 1 cm Painting . 19.7 x 30.3 x 0.4 inch

€2,550

Painting, Pause, Marie-Aude Molin

Marie-Aude Molin

Painting . 40 x 60 x 0.25 cm Painting . 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch

€480

Painting, Passage, Robert Inestroza

Robert Inestroza

Painting . 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch

€340

Painting, Paradis en Corse, Louis Magre

Louis Magre

Painting . 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

€3,100

Painting, Windmills, Alexander Levich

Alexander Levich

Painting . 90 x 150 x 2 cm Painting . 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch

€4,800

Painting, En pointillé, Marta Grassi

Marta Grassi

Painting . 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting . 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch

€3,900

Painting, Partir 3, Sandrine Hirson

Sandrine Hirson

Painting . 20 x 20 x 1.7 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inch

€88

Painting, Eclat 3, Sandrine Hirson

Sandrine Hirson

Painting . 20 x 20 x 1.7 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inch

€120

Painting, Petit prince, Maxime Andriot

Maxime Andriot

Painting . 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting . 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

€2,250 €2,025

Painting, Morocco Bazaar, Emil Aziz

Emil Aziz

Painting . 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting . 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,300

Painting, La fiesta, Albena Vatcheva

Albena Vatcheva

Painting . 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,199 €1,140

Painting, A travel, Galya Popova

Galya Popova

Painting . 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,760

Painting, Mille Chemins, Yann Letestu

Yann Letestu

Painting . 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting . 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch

€3,100

Painting, Westcoast railway, Alione

Alione

Painting . 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch

€4,200