Rating and value of paintings by Ram Kumar

If you own a work by or after the artist Ram Kumar, and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will offer you their appraisal services. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its current market value. Then, if you wish to sell your work, we will guide you towards the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Rating and value of the artist Ram Kumar

A key figure in modern Indian painting, Ram Kumar is a prodigious 20th-century painter who has acquired a certain renown, based on his paintings, watercolor drawings, prints, but also his sculptures. For almost forty years, his works have been auctioned at prices ranging from €180 to €637,800, a substantial delta but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to the artist's works. One of his paintings (oil on cardboard) entitled Vagabond sold for €637,800 in 2008, whereas it was estimated at between €255,120 and €637,800.  

Order of value from a single work to the most prestigious

Style and technique of artist Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar is one of the pioneers of Indian abstract painting. He uses several artistic techniques including oil painting, painting on cardboard, acrylic, charcoal, printmaking and also sculpture.

Ram Kumar's life  

Ram Kumar was born in Shimla, in the Punjab region, in 1924, into a middle-class Indian family. His father worked for the British Indian government, and it was in this context that he began visiting exhibitions. He met the painter Raza and followed him, along with Akbar Pademsee, to Paris, where he painted with Fernand Léger and André Lhote. He moved towards abstraction and took part in various exhibitions in France, India and around the world. In particular, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1956, and organized a personal monograph in New Dehli in 2008.

His works are close to lyrical abstraction, produced in France at the same period.

He receives high civilian honors in India and dies in 2018 at the age of 93.

Kumar's imprint on his period

Ram Kumar leaves a significant imprint on twentieth-century art history, and is one of his country's best-known painters. His considerable artistic output is the result of hard work and a long career. Ram Kumar is one of the highest-rated contemporary artists on the art market today.

Recognizing the artist's signature

Ram Kumar simply signs his canvases with his name in cursive script, at the bottom of his canvas.

Knowing the value of a work

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