Akbar Padamsee Auction Prices and Value Guide

Akbar Padamsee auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 281 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Akbar Padamsee auction prices: quick answer

Akbar Padamsee auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Akbar Padamsee
Source records
281
Market update
2026-02-16

Akbar Padamsee market snapshot

Akbar Padamsee shows deep auction liquidity with 189 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $50,190. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-13.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (2.3% · 3 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (22.5% · 29 sales)
  • $10,000+ (75.2% · 97 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$882
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-13

Artist context

About Akbar Padamsee

Akbar Padamsee portrait
Akbar Padamsee · see-source-page · Source

Born

1928

Died

2020

Nationality

Indian

Akbar Padamsee (1928–2020) was an Indian artist and painter associated with the development of modern Indian painting. Wikidata and VIAF establish his identity and life years, while the collected biographical material describes a practice extending beyond painting to watercolor, printmaking, sculpture, photography, film, and computer graphics. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, or experimental photographic and digital work. Padamsee is discussed alongside S. H. Raza, F. N. Souza, and M. F. Husain in accounts of modern Indian painting. The source pack also documents his visibility in the international auction market through a reported Sotheby’s New York sale of Reclining Nude in 2011. That individual result provides historical market context, but it should not be treated as a price guide for another object without confirming that the medium, format, date, attribution, and other relevant characteristics are genuinely comparable.

Modern Indian paintingOil paintingPlastic-emulsion paintingWatercolorPrintmaking and lithography

Common works and media

Works associated with Padamsee may appear as oil or plastic-emulsion paintings, watercolors, prints and lithographs, sculpture, photography, film, or computer-graphic experiments. The collected sources establish this breadth of media but do not quantify the relative auction frequency of each category or identify a sufficiently supported catalogue of subjects, periods, or named series.

Market and appraisal context

Padamsee’s work across painting, works on paper, printmaking, sculpture, photography, film, and computer graphics makes medium and work type essential starting points for comparison. Public auction records should be matched by category and sale date instead of applying one prominent result across his entire practice. The collected material identifies a 2011 Sotheby’s sale for Reclining Nude, but it does not provide a comprehensive auction chronology or object-level evidence concerning condition, provenance, dimensions, editions, or attribution. Those details must be verified before forming a value conclusion. Realized prices are most useful when the underlying lots are sufficiently comparable and the sale context is clearly documented.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Works on paper and prints
  • Sculpture

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type
  2. Comparable public auction records and their sale dates

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected sources establish a multi-medium practice but do not establish how frequently each category appears at auction.
  • The source pack contains one specifically described auction result rather than a comprehensive market chronology, so it cannot support a price trend or prediction.
  • Edition details, condition, provenance, attribution, dimensions, and object-specific documentation must be established independently for any appraisal.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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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 Akbar Padamsee

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Akbar Padamsee worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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