Bombay Art Society Gold Medal awarded to N.S. Bendre in 1941; this was the most respected and prestigious award for the modern Indian artists until the establishment of the Lalit Kala National Awards in 1955.

In 1996, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Fisherwomen (1943), offered in the Modern and Contemporary Indian Paintings: One Hundred Years by Sotheby's, which concluded on 08 October 1996 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹3,22,712 ($9,063.67). 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 earlier 1940s Still Lifes with Flowers in watercolours were essential studies for later oil on canvas experimental cubist paintings which gained him significant respect and artistic credibility during the 1950s.

In 1995, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Landscape (1945), offered in the Indian Contemporary Paintings: Islamic Works of Art and Indian, Himalaya and South-East Asian Art by Christie's, which concluded on 16 October 1995 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹1,18,154 ($3,446). 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 the inclusion of the hues and even the inclusion of the black colour which are Expressionist traits, Bendre rather successfully attempted a sort of telescoping of the late nineteenth century French Impressionist style with the German Expressionist style of the second decade of the twentieth century… Langhammer brought into India Kokoschka’s style of panoramic landscapes. Similar hues of colour were employed by Bendre to replace the mellow colour scheme of the existing Indore school as if to usher in the celebration of the Indian sunshine.

For me, the creative process starts with the blank canvas, by the dabbing of paint on it, the aim being to catch the original impact of the total image conceived. Things are nebulous in the beginning, become clearer by manipulating, by the application of more paint, dabbing, scratching, washing off, repainting till I’m nearer to the original impact. There is a natural limit for the canvas to take the load of paint and for my mental endurance: so I resign, I finish a painting and I sign it… Sketches help my paintings, so whenever I travel, I keep some paper in my bag for sketching. I make very small sketches, and these sketches are my gold mines….

I think it was during the late 1950s that we can say that he (Bendre) truly ‘arrived’. He had been painting for nearly two decades; during the 1940s he was concentrating on landscape painting to begin with in a broader Impressionisticquality. But by about 1955, he showed interesting grasp of the simplicity of Jamini Roy, the synthesis of Cubistic elements and Indian sculptural sensuality of the Sinhalese George Keyt, Bendre developed a significant figuration which was cubistic as well as elegantly linear like the Kangra painting.

Man is the centre of my universe along with his emotions, his love, his social intercourse, his surroundings.

In 2020, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1971), offered in the Alive: Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art by Saffronart, which concluded on 17 September 2020 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹1,56,00,000 ($213,699). 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 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1974), offered in the Summer Online Auction: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art by Saffronart, which concluded on 12 May 2005 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹32,06,500 ($74,053). 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 2021, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of A Bundi House (1979), offered in the The Fine Art Sale by Pundole, which concluded on 18 November 2021 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹3,50,00,000 ($471,983.08). 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 2021, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Jaisalmer Fort (1979), offered in the The Fine Art Sale by Pundole, which concluded on 18 November 2021 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹5,00,00,000 ($674,261.55). 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.