B. Prabha Auction Prices and Value Guide

B. Prabha auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 390 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

B. Prabha auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
B. Prabha
Source records
390
Market update
2026-02-16

B. Prabha market snapshot

B. Prabha shows deep auction liquidity with 229 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $16,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 19 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.5% · 1 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (31.3% · 60 sales)
  • $10,000+ (68.2% · 131 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$23,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
19
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-09

Artist context

About B. Prabha

B. Prabha portrait
सुहास बहुळकर, दीपक घारे · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Born

1933

Died

2001

Nationality

Indian

B. Prabha (1933–2001) was a twentieth-century Indian painter recognized for oil-on-canvas compositions centered on graceful, elongated figures. Her best-known images portray contemplative rural women, often arranged within restrained compositions dominated by a single colour. This recurring visual language gives many of her paintings an immediately recognizable silhouette and emotional register. Public biographical material describes a prolific career encompassing more than 50 exhibitions by the time of her death. Her work is also reported in prominent Indian institutional and corporate collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, the TIFR Art Collection, and the Air India Art Collection. Collectors most often encounter her through figurative oil paintings, particularly images of women associated with rural life. Although these recurring subjects can assist initial identification, attribution requires attention to the individual work, its materials, documentation, and history rather than stylistic resemblance alone.

Oil on canvasRural womenElongated, contemplative female figures

Common works and media

Works most clearly documented in the collected sources are oil paintings on canvas. Recurring subjects include elongated, contemplative women associated with rural life, frequently presented through simplified figurative compositions and a dominant colour. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works as common parts of her auction market.

Market and appraisal context

B. Prabha’s auction context is principally associated in the available sources with figurative oil paintings on canvas. When assessing a possible work, collectors should document its medium, support, dimensions, subject, compositional treatment, date or period, signature and inscriptions, provenance, and physical condition. Images of elongated rural women and strongly unified colour schemes correspond to her reported subject matter, but those characteristics do not independently establish authorship. Comparable public sales are most useful when the works share relevant features and when attribution, condition, size, and sale date are clearly recorded. The collected pack did not provide readable item-level auction results or a major-auction-house biography, so no conclusion about price direction, scarcity, or record values is warranted here.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Oil paintings on canvas

Value drivers

  1. Medium and support, including whether a work is an oil painting on canvas
  2. Subject and compositional type, including elongated rural female figures and single-colour-dominant treatments

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no readable major-auction-house biography or item-level sale results, so it does not support price-trend, record-price, or scarcity claims.
  • Any appraisal should separately establish authorship or attribution, dimensions, date, provenance, and condition rather than relying on visual resemblance or the artist-name association alone.
  • The Appraisily auction-price page was rate-limited during collection; its underlying comparable records were therefore not available for detailed analysis.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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Artist value FAQ

How much is B. Prabha 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.

Can Appraisily value my B. Prabha artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.