Lempertz · Lot 908
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-06-02
Published result : 2852 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
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Jānis Avotins
Documented citizenships : Latvia
Jānis Avotiņš, born in 1981, is a Latvian painter who studied at the Art Academy of Latvia and completed a traineeship in Manchester. His images examine the persistence of the past through archival photographs and printed documents. Drawing recedes into subtly modulated layers of colour, leaving uncertain figures and spaces to emerge.
His repertoire includes images from the Soviet press, whose legibility and associations with memory he transforms. Shown at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen in 2008 and the Saatchi Gallery in 2012, his work connects recognition with disappearance. The exhibition Distances, held at the Art Museum Riga Bourse in 2026, extended this inquiry: a group photograph from the 1920s became the starting point for a painterly investigation of relationships between figures and space.
This profile brings together identity references for Jānis Avotins and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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6documented results with prices
Lempertz · Ketterer
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Works recorded at auction
Ketterer · Lot 829
I Saw My Bad Approaching
Acrylic on canvas
Original catalogue wording
I Saw My Bad Approaching
Acryl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-06-11
Published result : 6250 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Ketterer · Lot 752
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Untitled
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-06-10
Published result : 3875 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2500
View the lot at the auction house ↗Ketterer · Lot 838
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Untitled
Acryl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2015-12-04 — 2015-12-05
Published result : 5625 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Ketterer · Lot 756
Ohne Titel (Hand)
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Ohne Titel (Hand)
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2015-06-12 — 2015-06-13
Published result : 4500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 3000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Ketterer · Lot 1115
Untitled
Tempera
Original catalogue wording
Sans titre
Tempera
Auction date : 2013-12-07
Published result : 5625 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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- RKDartists · ODC-BY-1.0
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