# Bhupen Khakhar artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bhupen-khakhar/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:36:03.704Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Indian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Bhupen Khakhar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Bhupen_Khakhar.jpg)
cea + from The Netherlands · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhupen_Khakhar.jpg

## About Bhupen Khakhar

Bhupen Khakhar (1934–2003) was an Indian artist identified in international authority files as a painter. His identity and lifespan are consistently recorded by Wikidata, VIAF, and Tate, while The Museum of Modern Art also maintains an artist record for him. These institutional and authority references provide a reliable basis for matching his name across collection, library, and auction data. The supplied research pack does not provide enough institution-grade descriptive evidence to assign a particular movement, school, or recurring subject with high confidence, so those labels are intentionally left open here. Collectors may encounter Khakhar through paintings and auction listings attributed to him; Appraisily currently associates 199 auction records with this public artist identity. That record count provides a body of market data for review, but it does not by itself establish the authenticity, rarity, quality, or value of an individual object.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the only common work type directly supported by the collected authority records. The source pack does not provide sufficient evidence to characterize recurring subjects, techniques, print editions, drawings, sculptures, or other categories, so those areas require confirmation from object-level cataloguing and auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Bhupen Khakhar should begin with secure identity matching and direct review of relevant auction records. The supplied pack confirms an Appraisily auction corpus, but it does not expose lot-level descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, condition notes, provenance, dimensions, or attribution language. Those details must be examined before comparable sales can support a value conclusion. Paintings are the only work category clearly supported by the collected authority evidence. Broader media, edition, or subject-based market segments should not be inferred from this pack. Auction results are historical observations rather than forecasts, and their relevance depends on the characteristics and documentation of the specific object being appraised.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with auction records and, when available, auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each object still requires independent review of its attribution and documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4902177
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/79149066341765600106/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3078
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bhupen-khakhar-2406
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500122657
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhupen_Khakhar
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bhupen-khakhar/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhupen_Khakhar.jpg