# Ravi Varma - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:01:54.268Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2001-10-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-09
- Median realised price: $12,500
- Price range: $80 to $420,000

## Market Takeaway
Ravi Varma has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $12,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($12,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,000 to $119,500\) 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: 17.6% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 23.5% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 58.8% (10 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-09
- Days since latest sale: 141
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Deutsch Auktionen: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Cheffins: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Pundole's: 1 lots
- RB Fine Arts: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-09 | Raja Ravi Varma \(1848\-1906\) Untitled \(Kadambari/Saraswati\) | Bonhams | £2,000
2. 2024-08-24 | INDIAN SHAKUNTALA OIL PAINTING AFTER RAJA RAVI VARMA | Antique Arena Inc | $1,500
3. 2022-11-19 | RAJA RAVI VARMA 1848\-1906 OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING 4FT X 3FT | RB Fine Arts | $12,500
4. 2019-10-01 | Raja Ravi Varma \(1848\-1906\)\-attributed | Deutsch Auktionen | €700
5. 2017-04-04 | Raja Ravi Varma \(1848\-1906\)\-attributed | Deutsch Auktionen | €4,000
6. 2016-03-08 | Raja Ravi Varma \(1848\-1906\)\-attributed, Portrait of an Indian getleman layi | Deutsch Auktionen | €13,000
7. 2012-08-27 | RAJA RAVI VARMA \(1848 \- 1906\) | Pundole's | ₹380,000
8. 2012-05-10 | Raja Ravi Varma \(Indian, 1848\-1906\) Full length portrait of a boy, 48 x 30in. | Gorringes | £7,000
9. 2011-09-15 | RAJA RAVI VARMA\(1848\-1906\) | Sotheby's | $266,500
10. 2011-03-24 | Raja Ravi Varma \(Indian, 1848\-1906\) Full length portrait of a boy, 48 x 30in. | Gorringes | £10,000
11. 2008-02-21 | Raja Ravi Varma \(Indian, 1848\-1906\) Indian | Cheffins | £80
12. 2007-10-25 | Raja Ravi Varma \(Indian, 1848\-1906\) Indian | Cheffins | £160
13. 2007-03-21 | Vasantasena | Christie's | $420,000
14. 2004-09-23 | Raja Ravi Varma \(1848 \- 1906\) | Christie's | $130,700
15. 2003-09-17 | RAJA RAVI VARMA \(1848 \- 1906\) | Christie's | $119,500
16. 2003-09-17 | RAJA RAVI VARMA \(1848 \- 1906\) | Christie's | $119,500
17. 2001-10-15 | Raja Ravi Varma, 1848\-1906 | Sotheby's | N/A
18. 2001-10-15 | Raja Ravi Varma, 1848\-1906 | Sotheby's | $35,250

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