
Abstract composition
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Abstrakte Komposition
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2023-06-07
Published result : 27720 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Komposition 1974/12 is an oil on canvas measuring 130 × 97 cm. The catalogue describes a violet signature and the date “Ritschl 74” at the lower left; on the reverse, the work is signed and titled “Ritschl Komp. 74/12”. According to the same catalogue, the painting is to be included in the supplement to Wolff Mirus’s catalogue raisonné. The published provenance traces it to a private collection in Lower Saxony.
This profile brings together identity references for Otto Ritschl and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Abstrakte Komposition
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2023-06-07
Published result : 27720 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 10000
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Oil on canvas
Abstrakte Komposition 54/26
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 30240 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 7000
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Oil on canvas
Komposition 74/25
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 6500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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Oil on canvas
Komposition 1974/12
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2021-06-18
Published result : 6000 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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Oil on canvas
Komposition
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2020-12-09
Published result : 11875 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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Oil on canvas
Komposition
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2020-12-09
Published result : 12500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
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Oil on canvas
Der Betrunkene
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2020-12-08
Published result : 118750 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 30000
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Oil on canvas
Komposition
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-06-01
Published result : 12400 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 5000
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