# Akbar Padamsee artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:51:39.518Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1928-04-12
- Death date: 2020-01-06
- Nationality: Indian
- Movements: Modern Indian painting
- Common media: Oil painting, Plastic-emulsion painting, Watercolor, Printmaking and lithography, Sculpture, Photography and film, Computer graphics

## Portrait

![Akbar Padamsee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Akbar_Padamsee_%28artist%29.jpg)
Akbar Padamsee · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Padamsee

## About Akbar Padamsee

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Each object still requires independent review of its attribution and physical and documentary evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4700434
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/43198540/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041553
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Padamsee
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Padamsee