Jamini Roy's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 36 USD to 579,600 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for ...

Roy’s work was instrumental in defining a unique identity for Indian art in postcolonial India. His early works, created post-1930s, featured religious icons from Hindu epics and mythology ...

“Jamini Roy has an emotional connect with the city and the people of Bengal, so we need to be mindful that any interventions we make will be in keeping with popular sentiment,” says Anand.

Jamini Roy was an Indian painter best known for combining traditional Indian and Western art styles to create unique and complex works. Born on April 11, 1887 in Beliatore, India, he went on to study ...

India’s first modernist master, Jamini Roy passed away on 24th April 1972. In this millennium, April is observed as Earth Month and you can’t help feeling it is an incantation to the memory of ...

After he had rested for an hour, Jamini Roy would rise to paint into the early evening. The only son who served as his personal assistant supervised his residential cottage industry, where originals ...

Jamini Roy was once most famous for creating portraits. Life-like portraits, very unlike the almond-shaped eyed faces we are used to. He also was penniless for several years of his career and refused ...

Jamini Roy is as different from most of his fellow Indian artists as curry from ice cream. Most young Indians who go to Europe to study art turn out either politely classic or dutifully modern work.

“Jamini Roy believed in the popularisation of art, he didn’t believe that art should just be for elites. “So he painted in a style that was very accessible to everyone, ...