Introduction
- Zodiac sign
- Aries
- Age
- 91
- Place of Birth
- Bombay, Maharashtra, India
- Place of Death
- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Spouse(s)
- Solange gounelle
- Year Marriage Registered
- 1954
- Children
- Daughter raisa padamsee
- State Country of Birth
- Maharashtra, India
- State Country of Death
- Tamil Nadu, India
1948
- Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India
1948 – 1950
1950
- Accepts S.H. Raza's invitation and leaves for Paris upon Graduation. Learns the techniques of a few great French Masters
1965
- Rockefeller Fellowship for one year, USA
1965 – 1966
1967
- Artist in residence, Stout State University, Wisconsin, USA
1969
- Nehru Fellowship in Delhi by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund
1967
- During his residency, teaches as guest artist in the Art Department, Stout State University, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
1968
- At the invitation of S. B. Palsikar (head teacher, J. J. School of Art, Mumbai), lectures students on Aesthetics
1969
- Sets up the Vision Exchange Workshop (VIEW), an inter-disciplinary collaboration for graphics, photography and film-making (between painters and filmmakers) based on Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship received from the Government of India
- Experiments with film as medium and puts forward a theory towards programming forms through two short abstract films like Syzygy and Events in a Cloud Chamber, animating a set of geometric drawings, based on Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship Project
1985
- Printmaking in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, India
Exhibitions
1949
- 59th Annual Exhibition, Presented by Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
1952
- Two shows with S.H. Raza and F.N. Souza, Paris, France
- 1st Group show with Raza, Souza, Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris, France
1953
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Indian Painters in Paris, two-man show with Raza, Galerie Raymond Creuze, Paris, France
1954
29 Apr 1954 to 04 May 1954
1955
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1957
- Galerie de Ventadour, Paris, France
01 Mar 1957 to 21 Mar 1957
1958
- Seven Indian Painters, Gallery One, London, UK
1959
- Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
- São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
1960
- One-man show (Grey works), Presented by Gallery 59, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
- 70th Annual Exhibition, Presented by Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
1961
- Second Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1962
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
- Akbar Padamsee, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India
1963
- Gallery 63, New York, USA
- Six Indian Painters, New York, USA
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1964
- Drawings of Padamsee, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
13 Oct 1964 to 23 Oct 1964
1965
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
19 May 1965 to 05 Jun 1965
1966
1968
- First Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
1969
- Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India
1972
18 Mar 1972 to 06 Apr 1972
1973
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
1974
01 Feb 1974 to 16 Feb 1974
- A Handbook of Painting and Graphics, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1975
24 Nov 1975 to 05 Dec 1975
1977
- Group Show - Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1978
- Pictorial Space: A Point of View on Contemporary Indian Art, Presented by Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
14 Dec 1978 to 03 Jan 1979
1979
- Focus 4 Painters, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
13 Mar 1979 to 07 Apr 1979
1980
- Retrospective Exhibition, Presented by Art Heritage, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and New Delhi, India
- Muktibodh, Book illustrations -watercolors, Lalit Kala Bhavan, Bhopal, India
13 Nov 1980 to 16 Nov 1980
1981
12 Jan 1981 to 20 Jan 1981
- Urja Gallery, Vadodara, India
- India: Myth & Reality - Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
- Indian Painting Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1982
- Group Show, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
- Contemporary Indian Art: An Exhibition of the Festival of India (Part 1 - The Gesture, And Motif)), The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
16 Sep 1982 to 05 Oct 1982
- Modern Indian Paintings, Presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
1984
- Watercolours, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
- 10 Artists, Gallery 7, Bombay, India
22 Sep 1984 to 20 Oct 1984
- Contemporary Painters, Organised by Pundole Art Gallery, at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai, India
1985
- Watercolour and Bronze Heads, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
16 Dec 1985 to 22 Dec 1985
- Artistes Indiens en France (Indian Artists in France), Nationale des Arts Plastiques (National Plastic Arts), Paris, France
1986
- Bronze and Watercolor Nudes, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
05 May 1986 to 21 May 1986
1987
- Festival of India, Moscow, USSR
1988
- Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
- Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
20 Oct 1988 to 22 Oct 1988
1989
- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
- Timeless Art, organised by Times of lndia, Mumbai, India
1990
09 Nov 1990 to 01 Dec 1990
- XAL Praxis Foundation Group Show of Prints, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
09 Feb 1990 to 20 Feb 1990
Padamsee, Akbar (Artist). Akbar Padamsee, 1954 | Solo Exhibition Invitation | 00859387
1954
29 Apr 1954 to 04 May 1954
1957
- Galerie de Ventadour, Paris, France
01 Mar 1957 to 21 Mar 1957
1960
- One-man show (Grey works), Presented by Gallery 59, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1962
- Akbar Padamsee, Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India
1963
- Gallery 63, New York, USA
1964
- Drawings of Padamsee, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
13 Oct 1964 to 23 Oct 1964
1965
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
19 May 1965 to 05 Jun 1965
1966
1969
- Kunika-Chemould Art Centre, New Delhi, India
1972
18 Mar 1972 to 06 Apr 1972
1974
01 Feb 1974 to 16 Feb 1974
1975
24 Nov 1975 to 05 Dec 1975
1980
- Retrospective Exhibition, Presented by Art Heritage, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay and New Delhi, India
- Muktibodh, Book illustrations -watercolors, Lalit Kala Bhavan, Bhopal, India
13 Nov 1980 to 16 Nov 1980
1981
12 Jan 1981 to 20 Jan 1981
- Urja Gallery, Vadodara, India
1984
- Watercolours, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1985
- Watercolour and Bronze Heads, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1986
- Bronze and Watercolor Nudes, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
05 May 1986 to 21 May 1986
1988
- Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
- Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
20 Oct 1988 to 22 Oct 1988
1989
- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1990
09 Nov 1990 to 01 Dec 1990
1992
- Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
- Sanskriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
1993
- Heads, Presented by Sakshi Gallery, Bengaluru and Chennai, India
- Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
07 Feb 1993 to 20 Feb 1993
1994
20 Nov 1994 to 09 Dec 1994
1996
12 May 1996 to 08 Jun 1996
1997
10 Aug 1997 to 30 Aug 1997
1998
15 Nov 1998 to 15 Dec 1998
1999
29 Sep 1999 to 09 Oct 1999
2000
30 Jan 2000 to 19 Feb 2000
2002
06 Jan 2002 to 25 Jan 2002
2003
16 Nov 2003 to 06 Dec 2003
2004
21 Nov 2004 to 04 Dec 2004
08 Apr 2004 to 30 Apr 2004
2005
23 Dec 2005 to 16 Jan 2006
- Synchrome, Akar Prakar, Kolkata, India
06 Nov 2005 to 15 Nov 2005
- Akbar Padamsee: Drawings, Watercolors and (hitherto unseen) Photographs, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi, India
16 Dec 2005 to 21 Dec 2005
2006
- Lines of Distinction, Strokes of Genius: Works on Paper 1959-2006, Tamarind Art, New York, UK
20 Sep 2006 to 04 Nov 2006
- Metascape to Humanscape, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
03 Nov 2006 to 05 Dec 2006
21 Feb 2006 to 08 Mar 2006
2007
- Metascape to Humanscape, Aicon Gallery, Palo Alto, United States
06 Apr 2007 to 06 May 2007
- Akbar Padamsee, Aicon Gallery, New York, USA
06 Apr 2007 to 06 May 2007
2008
- Surfaces Sensibles/ Sensitive Surfaces, Galerie Helene Lamarque, Paris, France
22 May 2008 to 13 Jul 2008
25 Feb 2008
04 Mar 2008
2010
09 Mar 2010 to 09 Apr 2010
- Recent works - Akbar Padamsee, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
10 Jan 2010 to 30 Jan 2010
05 Dec 2010 to 31 Dec 2010
2013
- Past Forward - Recent works in oil on canvas by Akbar Padamsee, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
27 Apr 2013 to 15 May 2013
21 Feb 2013 to 04 Mar 2013
- Lithographs and Photographs, Art Heritage, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India
28 Jan 2013 to 27 Feb 2013
Padamsee, Akbar (Artist). Akbar Padamsee, 1954 | Solo Exhibition Invitation | 00859387
1949
- 59th Annual Exhibition, Presented by Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
1952
- Two shows with S.H. Raza and F.N. Souza, Paris, France
- 1st Group show with Raza, Souza, Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris, France
1953
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Indian Painters in Paris, two-man show with Raza, Galerie Raymond Creuze, Paris, France
1955
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1958
- Seven Indian Painters, Gallery One, London, UK
1959
- Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
- São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
1960
- 70th Annual Exhibition, Presented by Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
1961
- Second Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1962
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
1963
- Six Indian Painters, New York, USA
- Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1968
- First Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
1973
- Gallery 9, Paris, France
1974
- A Handbook of Painting and Graphics, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1977
- Group Show - Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1978
- Pictorial Space: A Point of View on Contemporary Indian Art, Presented by Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India
14 Dec 1978 to 03 Jan 1979
1979
- Focus 4 Painters, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
13 Mar 1979 to 07 Apr 1979
1981
- India: Myth & Reality - Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
- Indian Painting Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1982
- Group Show, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
- Contemporary Indian Art: An Exhibition of the Festival of India (Part 1 - The Gesture, And Motif)), The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
16 Sep 1982 to 05 Oct 1982
- Modern Indian Paintings, Presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
1984
- 10 Artists, Gallery 7, Bombay, India
22 Sep 1984 to 20 Oct 1984
- Contemporary Painters, Organised by Pundole Art Gallery, at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai, India
1985
16 Dec 1985 to 22 Dec 1985
- Artistes Indiens en France (Indian Artists in France), Nationale des Arts Plastiques (National Plastic Arts), Paris, France
1987
- Festival of India, Moscow, USSR
1989
- Timeless Art, organised by Times of lndia, Mumbai, India
1990
- XAL Praxis Foundation Group Show of Prints, Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
09 Feb 1990 to 20 Feb 1990
- Summer Show IV, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1991
- Remembering Kali Pundole, Presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
03 May 1991 to 31 May 1991
- National Exposition of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
- State of the Art, First Computer Art Show in India, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1992
- Akbar Padamsee, Laxman Shrestha and Jogen Chowdhury, Presented by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
07 Dec 1992 to 26 Dec 1992
1993
- National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
- Parallel Perceptions, Presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
22 Nov 1993 to 11 Dec 1993
- Group Show, Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
- Reflections and Images, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
06 Aug 1993 to 21 Aug 1993
- Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
30 Aug 1993 to 05 Sep 1993
- National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, India
- Wounds, Presented by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, India
28 Feb 1993 to 07 Mar 1993
1994
- Drawing '94, Presented by Gallery Espace, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi, India
03 Apr 1994 to 14 Apr 1994
1995
- Exhibition of Paintings, Presented by Galerie 88, Kolkata, India
16 Jun 1995 to 30 Jun 1995
1996
- Modern and Contemporary Paintings: One Hundred Years, London, UK
- Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Pesented by Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
24 Nov 1996 to 09 Dec 1996
- The Moderns: The Progressive Artists' Group and Associates, Presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India
1997
- Recent and Earlier Paintings, Presented by Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
21 Nov 1997 to 15 Dec 1997
- Colours of Independence, Presented by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA) at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India
06 Sep 1997 to 28 Sep 1997
- 50 Years of Indian Art: Institiutions, Issues, Concepts and Conversations, Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts (MPCVA), Mumbai, India
- Major Trends in Indian Art presented by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
25 Sep 1997 to 12 Oct 1997
04 Jan 1997 to 17 May 1997
- Intuitive Logic: A Festival of Indian Contemporary Painting, Presented by The Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education & Art (HEART) at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, India
01 Mar 1997 to 19 Apr 1997
1998
- Multimedia: Art of the 90's, Presented by Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, India
20 Nov 1998 to 20 Dec 1998
- Drawings, Presented by Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
15 Sep 1998 to 03 Oct 1998
1999
- Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India
19 Oct 1999
- Creative Process, Part - 3, Presented by Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
17 Feb 1999 to 28 Feb 1999
Jehangir Art Gallery (Organiser). Thirty Indian Artists, 1985 | Group Exhibition Catalogue | 00883563
Chronicled Highlights
Economics of Art
Record-high lots17
Public Auction Market (1987–2026) | Select Indicators
Annual Auction Sale Turnover
It aggregates all sales across global auction houses into yearly totals.
Analysis reflected in the chart:
The turnover graph highlights periods of strong growth, moments of market correction, and resilience during downturns. Peaks often align with landmark works coming to public auction, while troughs may indicate reduced supply or weaker demand. Over time, the curve illustrates the overall trajectory of Akbar Padamsee’s public auction market presence.
Average Sale Price Per Lot
It smooths out fluctuations caused by the quantity of works offered and focuses on the Average Sale Price level per artwork.
Analysis reflected in the chart:
Rising average sale prices indicate growing collector confidence and a stronger willingness to pay higher amounts per work. Assuming the mix of mediums remains relatively stable over time, the proportion of works on paper typically priced lower than works on canvas adds important context to understanding these market movements.
Square Inch Rate Trend
This allows fair comparisons between smaller works and larger canvases.
Analysis reflected in the chart:
The Square Inch Rate shown in the graph combines various medium types such as canvas, paper, board, and others. Historically, works on canvas and board have broadly commanded higher prices compared to works on paper.
1952
- 3rd Prize, at the age of 20, Woman with Bird (painting executed in 1951), awarded by André Breton (French writer and founder of Surrealism) on behalf of Journal d'Arte, FranceInternational
- Awarded by Air France to travel to GreeceInternational
1954
- Gold Medal, Calcutta Fine Arts Society, Kolkata, India
1962
- National Award, Gold Medal, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1965
- Awarded Rockefeller III Fund Fellowship, J.D. Rockefeller FoundationInternational
1969-71
- Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, Government of India
1997
- Kalidas Samman, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India
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1998
- Excellence Award, Bank of India, India
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2004
- Lalit Kala Ratna Puraskar, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
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2007
- Dayawati Modi Award, New Delhi, India
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2008
- Roopdhar, Lifetime Achievement Award, Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, India
2010
- Kailash Lalit Kala, New Delhi, India
- Padma Bhushan, Government of India
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