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!

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Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Jean-Michel Atlan

Jean-Michel Atlan

Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 13 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 5.1 x 0 inch

$609

Photography, Poppies 10, Michael Filonow

Michael Filonow

Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch

$590

Painting, A reality, Gotcha Gaios

Gotcha Gaios

Painting - 62 x 59 x 7 cm Painting - 24.4 x 23.2 x 2.8 inch

$852

Painting, Charme, Jean-Claude Lannes

Jean-Claude Lannes

Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

$828

Print, The Look, Mimmo Rotella

Mimmo Rotella

Print - 87.6 x 66 cm Print - 34.5 x 26 inch

$950

Print, Roy, Kenneth Noland

Roy

Kenneth Noland

Print - 59 x 40 cm Print - 23.2 x 15.7 inch

$3,653

Painting, Explore, Jules Wittock

Jules Wittock

Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

$3,166

Sculpture, Trab, Willem Wouters

Willem Wouters

Sculpture - 41 x 20 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 7.9 x 5.5 inch

$9,132

Painting, 226) Invitation, Isis Bi-M

Isis Bi-M

Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$694

Print, Vague à l'âme, Goddog

Goddog

Print - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$146

Painting, Glow 1, Mayowa Esan

Mayowa Esan

Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch

$3,500

Painting, John, Tanner Rhines

Tanner Rhines

Painting - 43.18 x 55.88 cm Painting - 17 x 22 inch

$2,435

Print, Nudo Azzurro, Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

Print - 59.5 x 46.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.4 x 18.3 x 0 inch

$11,933

Print, Water, Joe Tilson

Joe Tilson

Print - 96.5 x 67.3 cm Print - 38 x 26.5 inch

$2,500

Sculpture, Horse head, Jón Leifsson

Jón Leifsson

Sculpture - 27 x 24 x 15 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 9.4 x 5.9 inch

$974

Painting, The Portrait_03, Renjie Gao

Renjie Gao

Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch

$1,218

Sculpture, Daydream, Linde Ergo

Linde Ergo

Sculpture - 16 x 16 x 8 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 6.3 x 3.1 inch

$1,400

Painting, Valentina 693K, Marie KVK

Marie KVK

Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$1,705

Painting, Paris, Josep Teixido

Josep Teixido

Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch

$5,479

Painting, Hanami 3, Kerstin Paillard

Kerstin Paillard

Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch

$1,826

Sculpture, Big dollar, Spaco

Spaco

Sculpture - 43 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch

$670

Fine Art Drawings, Le photographe, Gabrielle Rul

Gabrielle Rul

Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch

$487

Painting, Untitled, Barbara Vogel

Barbara Vogel

Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

$1,461

Painting, El Moya, Patrick Moya

Patrick Moya

Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

$2,679

Fine Art Drawings, 01 janv. 88, Bernard Noël

Bernard Noël

Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 15.7 x 0 inch

$974

Painting, Night in Paris, Yehor Dulin

Yehor Dulin

Painting - 60 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch

$1,800

Painting, N100, Anne-Marie Mary

Anne-Marie Mary

Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch

$925

Painting, Levitation, Valerian Lenud

Valerian Lenud

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

$4,250

Painting, People, Ablade Glover

Ablade Glover

Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 10.2 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 4 inch

$35,000

Photography, Brexit, Samsofy

Samsofy

Photography - 75 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch

$706

Painting, Her Blue Eyes, Trayko Popov

Trayko Popov

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

$731

Painting, Artiste en Caval, Nasty

Nasty

Painting - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch

$913

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