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Amerapoora. My-au-dyk Kyoung - Tripe
Thomas Ruff
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$2,036
New Utopias #4 (Blonde Girl) | Fotografiska Berlin 2024 : Miles Aldridge : Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn.
Miles Aldridge
Photography - 111 x 98 cm Photography - 43.7 x 38.6 inch
$8,482
Il Trovatore
Giorgio de Chirico
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,447,543
Retreat to the mountains
Nick Warren
Painting - 92 x 155 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 61 x 1.4 inch
$2,545
Veracruz Dancer
Nicolas Sanchez
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$15,000
Yellow Landscape
Liliana Samulak
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,637
Les monstres intérieurs
Julie Beauchemin
Print - 50.8 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Print - 20 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$850
Fresh Water
Sandy Steele-Perkins
Photography - 89 x 59 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35 x 23.2 x 0.2 inch
$860
Coste - La grue jaune - Nantes- île Beaulieu - 2012 - série danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$654
Patchwork Cerceta
María Martínez Araujo
Painting - 81.5 x 107.5 x 3 cm Painting - 32.1 x 42.3 x 1.2 inch
$3,675
Landscape18
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,450
J’ai demandé à la lune
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,262
Basic Instincts: The Horse
OONA
Photography - 35.2 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 13.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
La valse du réfectoire - série Une Vie de Moine
Jean-François Talivez
Photography - 23 x 35 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.1 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$498
Young woman listening to the radio in the hotel room
Sasha Katz
Print - 52 x 42 x 0.3 cm Print - 20.5 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
The blue one
Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,900
El sonido del agua
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,725
Borrowed Time
Brooke Shaden
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,714
Promenade romantique
Corinne Foucouin
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$905
Statue of Liberty, from the New York, New York portfolio
Robert Rauschenberg
Print - 90.2 x 59.7 x 0.1 cm Print - 35.5 x 23.5 x 0 inch
$5,089
The Tenor’s Solo
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,131
The Lady with The LV Bag and The Pink Moon
Carmen Carpena
Painting - 61 x 46 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 inch
$1,696
Banc de tournesols
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Print - 56.7 x 85 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.3 x 33.5 x 0 inch
$452
Tanto, Stava già male
Nicola Facchini
Sculpture - 25 x 30 x 32 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 11.8 x 12.6 inch
$3,166
Preaching to the converted
Boris Eldagsen
Print - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$1,131
Readers series - Capital
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$905
Composition with Triangles
František Kupka
Painting - 14.5 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 5.7 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$175,288
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - Wir Thälmannpioniere
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,018
It_helped_me_diamond
Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,262
Microscheme
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Sculpture - 48 x 37 x 3 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 14.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
After On Kawara
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Painting - 30 x 40.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.9 x 1 inch
$3,393
Clair-obscur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Conversaciones 4
Giana De Dier
Photography - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,524
Perpetuum Mobile
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
Blue Picture (Pincers)
Mikulás Medek
Painting - 70 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$281,592
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 822
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,200
With Cupid at Your Back
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$905
Still life in red
Marc Jesús-Vives
Painting - 89 x 116 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,487
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!