Jamini Roy Auction Prices and Value Guide
Jamini Roy auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 911 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Jamini Roy auction prices: quick answer
Jamini Roy auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Jamini Roy
- Source records
- 911
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Jamini Roy market snapshot
Jamini Roy shows very deep auction liquidity with 781 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $10,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 36 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (3.2% · 21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (46.5% · 304 sales)
- $10,000+ (50.3% · 329 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $8,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 36
- Median shift vs prior year
- +14.3%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-29
Artist context
About Jamini Roy
Born
1887
Died
1972
Nationality
Indian
Also known as
Roy, Jamini, Roy, Jamini Ranjan, Jaminy-Roy, Yāminī Rāẏa
Jamini Roy (1887–1972) was an Indian and Bengali painter associated with a deliberately simplified, flattened pictorial language. Authority files identify him under Jamini Roy and variants including Roy, Jamini Ranjan, Jaminy-Roy, and Yāminī Rāẏa. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Roy developed an approach that the collected biographical source connects both to European modern art and to popular bazaar paintings sold near Indian temples. Rather than assigning this combination to one narrowly defined movement, his work can be placed within Bengali and broader modern Indian artistic contexts. Roy received India’s Padma Bhushan in 1954. Collectors encounter his name through paintings offered at auction, institutional authority records, and publications devoted to his art. When researching a work, the various recorded forms of his name should be reconciled across catalogues and sale archives, while artist identity, attribution, medium, and object-specific evidence should remain separate questions.
Bengali art contextEuropean modern-art influence or affinityIndian bazaar-painting traditionPainting
Common works and media
Roy is documented consistently as a painter, making paintings the clearest work category supported by the collected sources. His pictorial language is described as simplified and flattened, with connections to Indian bazaar painting and European modern art. The source pack does not establish a sufficiently detailed list of recurring subjects, supports, or techniques, so those characteristics should be taken from the individual object and verified auction records rather than generalized here.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisily’s artist page indicates an established body of auction records associated with Jamini Roy, although this source pack does not include the underlying lot-level descriptions or prices. A specific appraisal should compare genuinely similar public results by medium, support, dimensions, subject, date, signature or inscription, attribution, provenance, condition, sale date, and auction venue. Those characteristics must be verified from the object and its records rather than inferred from Roy’s general reputation. Searches should include authority-recorded name variants while excluding unrelated identities. An unusually high or low result is not a prediction of another work’s value; its relevance depends on comparability and the quality of object-level evidence.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
Value drivers
- Comparable public auction records, including sale dates and realized prices when available
- Correct identity matching across authority-recorded name variants
- Object-specific attribution and consistency with the documented simplified, flattened pictorial language
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not contain individual auction-lot descriptions, estimates, realized prices, condition reports, or provenance records.
- No fetched major-auction-house biography or market essay was available in the source pack, so category and valuation guidance remains deliberately limited.
- Past auction results require object-level comparison and should not be treated as price predictions.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Jamini Roy 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 Jamini Roy artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.