# Theo Bitter - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T02:51:09.745Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 54
- Lots with prices: 31
- First auction date: 2004-06-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-15
- Median realised price: $280
- Price range: $17 to $3,585

## Market Takeaway
Theo Bitter has 54 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $280. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($280\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $725\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 77.4% (24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.6% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-15
- Days since latest sale: 228
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Venduehuis der Notarissen: 19 lots
- Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes: 7 lots
- Adams Amsterdam Auctions: 6 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Boven’s in coop with Douwes Fine Art: 2 lots
- Houston Auction Company: 2 lots
- SION Auctions: 2 lots
- Twents Veilinghuis: 2 lots
- Veilinghuis de Jager: 2 lots
- Vendu Rotterdam: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-15 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) Compositie met rasterwerk | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | N/A
2. 2025-05-06 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) Aan de kust, gesigneerd r.o. en op spieraam, olieve… | Veilinghuis Van Spengen | N/A
3. 2024-11-12 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
4. 2024-06-17 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) 'The little train' | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | N/A
5. 2024-02-28 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) \- Stilleven met een fruitmand | Venduehuis der Notarissen | N/A
6. 2023-12-12 | Theo Bitter \(Dutch 1916 \- 1994\). De fuik \[The Fish Trap\], 1955. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €500
7. 2023-12-12 | Theo Bitter \(Dutch 1916 \- 1994\). Portrait of a young woman. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €400
8. 2023-09-25 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) Man met pet en profil | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €20
9. 2023-09-25 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) "Grootouders met kleinkinderen" | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €160
10. 2023-06-19 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) Man met pet en profil | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | N/A
11. 2023-06-19 | Theo Bitter \(1916 \- 1994\) "Grootouders met kleinkinderen" | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | N/A
12. 2022-12-11 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) \- Compositie in zwart \- 1967 | SION Auctions | N/A
13. 2022-11-28 | Theo Bitter \(Dutch 1916 \-1994\) | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €1,500
14. 2022-07-08 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) \- Haan in de nacht | SION Auctions | N/A
15. 2022-03-25 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) Abstracte voorstelling, olieverf op doek, l.o. gesigneerd en gedateerd '67. | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €215
16. 2022-01-06 | Theo Bitter, Boy on chair | Twents Veilinghuis | €150
17. 2022-01-06 | Theo Bitter, Boy on chair | Twents Veilinghuis | €600
18. 2020-11-14 | THEO BITTER \(Dutch 1916\-1994\) A PAINTING, "Harbor of Oslo," | Houston Auction Company | $300
19. 2019-12-08 | THEO BITTER \(Dutch 1916\-1994\) A PAINTING, "Harbor of Oslo," | Houston Auction Company | N/A
20. 2019-09-22 | THEO BITTER \(Dutch 1916\-1994\) A PAINTING, "Harbor of Oslo," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
21. 2019-05-27 | Still life in luminous colours from 1940 | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €280
22. 2019-04-17 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | €500
23. 2018-09-12 | Theo Bitter \(1916\-1994\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | €120
24. 2018-07-03 | SIGNED THEODORUS BITTER OIL ON CANVAS | Veilinghuis de Jager | €220

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