Gopal Ghose was born in 1913 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

In 2007, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1952), offered in the The Masterpieces & ABC Series: Includes Indian Modern & Contemporary Art Books, Popular Culture & Pakistani Film Posters by Osian's, which concluded on 27 July 2007 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹10,20,000 ($25,198). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

In 2001, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Mountainscape (1955), offered in the India: The Passionate Detachment: Curated Auctions of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art and Books by Osian's, which concluded on 24 February 2001 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹1,60,000 ($3,435). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

With a combination of contrasting colours he (Gopal Ghose) gave a new interpretation of light and shade — totally different from what we were accustomed to. We (the students at the CGAC) were endowed with a new kind of vision to which this familiar world of nature revealed herself as something new, full of poignant mystery.

In 2001, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Red Rose (1961), offered in the India: The Passionate Detachment: Curated Auctions of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art and Books by Osian's, which concluded on 24 February 2001 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹1,75,000 ($3,757). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Landscape (1962), offered in the The Bengal Art Auction: Early and Current Art of the Region by Apparao Art, which concluded on 03 September 2006 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹9,73,500 ($20,963). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

The mystery of Gopal Ghose’s recent art lies in the interplay of images born from the artist’s unconscious. In his boyhood spent in Shimla, Gopal Ghose grew up amidst an uninhibited feast of silent forms, the forms of Nature. Later, in Benaras, the lanes and byelanes, the inimitable and ancient river-front, and the temple bells cast indelible impressions on his memory. Still later, when he visited Jaipur, the granite beauty of colourful arid expanses left another set of impressions in striking contrast to the former ones., Again and later, the fast changing blues of the Madras sea added to this vast colourful treasury of formal experience. This mine of images is freely drawn upon, and takes significant form in his art to produce a new world of vision and design. In his recent works he uses softer and carefully controlled lines. The colour patterns are subdued and have a lyrical dreamy atmosphere.

In 1995, Gopal Ghose A Retrospective marked a major milestone in the exhibition history of Gopal Ghose, offering a retrospective survey of the artist's artistic production