Jamini Roy

Born in 1887 in a small village in Beliatore, Bankura district, West Bengal, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art, Kolkata in 1903. He began his career by painting in the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits, very much in keeping with his training in a British academic system. Yet, by 1925, Roy had begun experimenting along the lines of popular bazaar paintings sold outside the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. By the early...
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Honours and Awards
  • 1967 Awarded honorary D. Litt., Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
  • 1956 Elected Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  • 1955 Awarded Padma Bhushan, Government of India
  • 1935 Awarded Viceroys Gold Medal for ‘Mother Helping the Child to Cross the Pool’.
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    Summer Online Auction 18-19 June 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled (Gopini)

    Gouache on card laid on board

    15 x 10.25 in

    Winning bid
    $10,800
    Rs 9,18,000
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    Summer Online Auction 18-19 June 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled (Gopini)

    Gouache on card laid on board

    20 x 9.5 in

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    $10,800
    Rs 9,18,000
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    Summer Online Auction 18-19 June 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Tempera on paper

    22 x 26.75 in

    Winning bid
    $18,000
    Rs 15,30,000
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    Works on Paper and Books 7-8 May 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Tempera on paper

    16.25 x 11.5 in

    Winning bid
    $10,800
    Rs 9,07,200
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    Absolute Tuesdays 20 May 2025

    Jamini Roy

    a) Untitled
    Ink on paper pasted on...

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    Winning bid
    $786
    Rs 66,000
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    Lot 1 Details

    Absolute Tuesdays 29 April 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Pen on paper pasted on mount board

    8 x 5.25 in

    Winning bid
    $847
    Rs 72,000
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    Absolute Tuesdays 15 April 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Pen and ink on paper pasted on paper

    8.5 x 2.75 in

    Winning bid
    $1,535
    Rs 1,32,000
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    Absolute Tuesdays 4 February 2025

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Pen on paper pasted on mount board

    8 x 5.25 in

    Winning bid
    $530
    Rs 45,600
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    EXHIBITIONS            
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    Works on Paper: Apparao Art for Education. 15-28 September 2023

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Tempera on cardboard

    7.5 x 26.5 in





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    Works on Paper: Apparao Art for Education. 15-28 September 2023

    Jamini Roy

    Untitled

    Gouache on board

    21.25 x 11 in





    Lot 1 Details

    Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

    Jamini Roy

    untitled

    Gouache on paper

    13 x 9 in




    Lot 2 Details

    Modern Indian Art from the 1930s to the 2000s... 17 October 2020-21 January 2021

    Jamini Roy

    untitled

    Tempera on cardboard

    27.25 x 15.25 in




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