# Jamini Roy artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jamini-roy/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:49:04.002Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1887-04-15
- Death date: 1972-04-24
- Nationality: Indian
- Movements: Bengali art context, European modern-art influence or affinity, Indian bazaar-painting tradition
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Jamini Roy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Jaminiroy.jpg)
Jamini Roy · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamini_Roy

## About Jamini Roy

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity and authority data with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates well-supported identity facts from market guidance that still requires lot-level verification.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595454
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500082039
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/62791474/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/158796322
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamini_Roy
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamini_Roy
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jamini-roy/