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.
Introduction
- Date of Birth
- 05 Dec 1913
- Zodiac sign
- Sagittarius
- Date of Death
- 30 Jul 1980
- Age
- 66
- Place of Birth
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India
- State Country of Birth
- West Bengal, India
1931
- Diploma in Painting, Maharaja's School of Arts and Crafts, Jaipur, India
1931 – 1935
1935
- Diploma in Sculpture, Madras Art School, Chennai, India (Studied under the tutelage of D.P. Roy Chowdhury)
1935 – 1938
1938
- Art teacher, B.T. Department of Scottish Church College, Kolkata, India
1938 – 1940
1940
- Teacher, Indian Society of Oriental Art, Kolkata, India
1940 – 1945
- Faculty, Architectural Design, Bengal Engineering College, West Bengal, India
1940 – 1945
1943
- Founder Member, Calcutta Group, Kolkata, India
- Joint Secretary, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India
1950
- Lecturer, Government College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata, India
1950 – 1967
Exhibitions
1947
- All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi, India
1950
- Calcutta Group & Bombay Progressive Artists Group, No. 1 Chowringhee Terrace, Kolkata, India
1952
- Water Colours, 1 Chowringhee Terrace, Kolkata, India
1979
- Art of Bengal: Heritage of Bangladesh and Eastern India, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1987
- Retrospective, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
1992
28 Dec 1992 to 13 Jan 1993
1995
29 Aug 1995 to 10 Sep 1995
18 Oct 1995 to 10 Nov 1995
1996
- Modern Indian Paintings, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
14 Oct 1996 to 07 Nov 1996
1997
12 Aug 1997 to 17 Aug 1997
2003
- Manifestations, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004
- Manifestations II, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005
- Manifestations III, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
- Golden Jubilee: Spirit Set Free, Kumar Gallery Fifty Years, New Delhi, India
28 Oct 2005 to 30 Dec 2005
03 Jan 2005 to 13 Jan 2005
2007
- Celebration 2007, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
25 Jan 2007 to 08 Feb 2007
2008
- Celebration 2008, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
25 Jan 2008 to 08 Feb 2008
2009
- Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hampstead
2010
- Celebration 2010, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Ghose, Gopal (Artist). Paintings and Drawings by Late Gopal Ghose, 1992 | Solo Exhibition Invitation | 00859103
1952
- Water Colours, 1 Chowringhee Terrace, Kolkata, India
1987
- Retrospective, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata, India
1992
28 Dec 1992 to 13 Jan 1993
1995
29 Aug 1995 to 10 Sep 1995
18 Oct 1995 to 10 Nov 1995
1997
12 Aug 1997 to 17 Aug 1997
2013
- Gopal Ghoshe: A Jubilant Quest for the chromatic , Akar Prakar, Kolkata, India
18 May 2013 to 22 Jun 2013
2014
- Gopal Ghose, Bengal Foundation, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh
26 Sep 2014 to 18 Oct 2014
2015
- Rustic Resorance: Gopal Ghose, Important Paintings from the 1950s and 60s, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
14 Nov 2015 to 30 Nov 2015
2017
- Gopal Ghose: The Chromatic Image, Akar Prakar,New Delhi, India
20 Apr 2017 to 17 Jun 2017
2023
- Flower of Fire: The Life and Art of Gopal Ghose, DAG, New Delhi, India
22 Dec 2023 to 25 Jan 2024
2024
- Flower of Fire: The Life and Art of Gopal Ghose, DAG, Mumbai, India
16 Mar 2024 to 27 Apr 2024
Ghose, Gopal (Artist). Paintings and Drawings by Late Gopal Ghose, 1992 | Solo Exhibition Invitation | 00859103
1947
- All India Fine Art and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi, India
1950
- Calcutta Group & Bombay Progressive Artists Group, No. 1 Chowringhee Terrace, Kolkata, India
1979
- Art of Bengal: Heritage of Bangladesh and Eastern India, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1996
- Modern Indian Paintings, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
14 Oct 1996 to 07 Nov 1996
2003
- Manifestations, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2004
- Manifestations II, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2005
- Manifestations III, Organised by Delhi Art Gallery at Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
- Golden Jubilee: Spirit Set Free, Kumar Gallery Fifty Years, New Delhi, India
28 Oct 2005 to 30 Dec 2005
03 Jan 2005 to 13 Jan 2005
2007
- Celebration 2007, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
25 Jan 2007 to 08 Feb 2007
2008
- Celebration 2008, Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, India
25 Jan 2008 to 08 Feb 2008
2009
- Indian Art After Independence: Selected Works from the Collections of Virginia & Ravi Akhoury and Shelley & Donald Rubin, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hampstead
2010
- Celebration 2010, Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2011
- Manifestations VI, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
24 Oct 2011 to 24 Dec 2011
- Ethos V: Indian Art Through the Lens of History (1900 to 1980), Indigo Blue Art, Singapore
- Manifestations V, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
18 Apr 2011 to 18 Jun 2011
2012
25 Jan 2012 to 17 Mar 2012
- Gopal Ghose: A Jubilant Quest for the Chromatic, Birth Centenary Exhibition Presented by National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, India
2013
- Manifestations X: 75 artists, 20th Century Indian Art, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
30 Dec 2013 to 08 Mar 2014
Hacienda Gallery (Organiser) and Jasmine Shah Varma (Curator). Still Waters Run Deep, 2005 | Group Exhibition Catalogue | 00883556
Chronicled Highlights 81952 – 1999
Gopal Ghose was born in 1913 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
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
On 16 June 1999, made their debut in the Indian public auction market when Banyan Tree was presented as Lot in Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings, conducted by Bonhams in London, UK. This auction marked the artist's first recorded appearance in the public auction market, establishing the earliest chapter of their auction history.
Economics of Art
Record-high lots6
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 Gopal Ghose’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.
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