Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer Auction Prices and Value Guide

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 256 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer auction prices: quick answer

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer
Source records
256
Market update
2026-02-16

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer market snapshot

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer shows thin auction liquidity with 6 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $26,900. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2022-06-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (20.0% · 1 sales)
  • $10,000+ (80.0% · 4 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2022-06-25

Artist context

About Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer

Born

1866

Died

1939

Also known as

Richard Zommer, Richard Karlovich Zommer

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer (1866–1939) is identified by Wikidata as a painter. Multilingual Wikipedia entries describe him as a Russian artist, while one also notes British origin; because the collected authority excerpts do not resolve nationality, that detail remains unassigned here. Secondary sources associate his practice with Orientalist, realist, and impressionist contexts, but those labels still require confirmation from a museum or scholarly source. He worked in watercolor as well as painting more broadly and is described as a landscape painter, ethnographic genre painter, and portraitist. Central Asian travel supplied subjects for watercolors, while architectural scenes, landscapes, figures, and portraits also appear in the collected material. Collectors may therefore encounter his name attached to Central Asian views, architectural compositions, genre scenes, portraits, and watercolors. Identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, GND, ISNI, and RKD help distinguish him across catalogues despite variant renderings of his name.

WatercolorPaintingCentral Asian travel scenesLandscapesEthnographic genre scenesPortraits

Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly point to watercolors based on Central Asian travel, along with landscapes, ethnographic genre scenes, portraits, and architectural views. One secondary source identifies a view of the Shir-Dor Mosque in Samarkand as an auctioned composition. The pack does not establish editions, prints, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should not be assumed without work-specific evidence.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by resolving the artist's variant name forms and documenting the work's medium, dimensions, subject, location, date, signature, inscriptions, condition, and provenance. The collected sources associate Zommer with watercolor, landscape, ethnographic genre, portrait, and Central Asian architectural subjects, making close subject and medium matching especially relevant when selecting comparable lots. One secondary source mentions a 2006 Sotheby's London sale involving a Samarkand mosque scene, but the source pack does not include the original lot page or readable realized-price evidence. Any market conclusion should therefore rely on verified auction records matched by medium, size, subject, date, condition, attribution, and sale context rather than on an unsupported price trend.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Watercolors, particularly Central Asian subjects
  • Landscape, ethnographic genre, and portrait paintings
  • Architectural views, including mosque scenes

Value drivers

  1. Precise identification of medium and technique, including whether a work is a watercolor or another type of painting
  2. Identification of the depicted subject and location, especially Central Asian landscapes, architecture, genre scenes, and portraits
  3. Attribution and name-form resolution across Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer, Richard Karlovich Zommer, and Richard Zommer
  4. Verification of comparable public-auction records, including sale date, venue, dimensions, medium, condition, and lot description

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected Appraisily page was rate-limited, so its auction records and realized-price details could not be reviewed directly: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-karl-karlovic-zommer/
  • A secondary source mentions a 2006 Sotheby's London sale of a Samarkand mosque scene, but the source pack contains no readable Sotheby's lot page for direct verification: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zommer
  • No price trend, market direction, or scarcity conclusion is supported by the collected source excerpts.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer

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Artist value FAQ

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