Jamini Roy was born in 11 April 1887 in Beliatore, Bankura Dist., West Bengal, India.

In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Portrait Of Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1925), offered in the Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series VI: With Rare Drawings and Books on Indian Contemporary Art by Osian's, which concluded on 01 March 2006 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹25,30,000 ($57,046). 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.

…(unlike) the Impressionist painters Jamini Roy never used black in his landscapes. He used ultramarine or prussian blue instead. Since he began his landscapes with these blues, the other colours of the painitngs too had to be set to the same scale. These pictures have been enriched by the unrestricted application of the brush and colours in small scale works of the artist of our country?

In 1997, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Gopini with Offering (1931), offered in the The Intuitive-Logic II: Modern & Contemporary Indian Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, Sculpture & Tapestry by HEART, which concluded on 15 November 1997 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹3,30,000 ($8,982). 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 patua paints his pictures directly on paper, whilst Jamini Roy works mostly on canvas, the ground being prepared in two ways: with ordinary clay overlaid with a coating of white clay mixed with tamarind glue, or with an amber-coloured clay mixed with lime-stone (ghuti).

In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Gandhiji (1945), offered in the Masterpieces and Museum Quality Series: Indian Contemporary Art by Osian's, which concluded on 02 December 2005 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹24,15,000 ($52,363.4). 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 2023, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (Seated Buddha) (1945), offered in the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art by Christie's, which concluded on 22 March 2023 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹93,16,830.6 ($113,400). 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 2023, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (Sita Haran) (1945), offered in the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art by Christie's, which concluded on 22 March 2023 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹1,13,87,237.4 ($138,600). 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.

It is sometimes asked why an orthodox Hindu who has never even read the New Testament should be interested in the subject of the Christ. Jamini Roy gives several reasons.
In the first place, he wanted to find out if his new technique could be applied with equal effect to a subject remote from his personal life. And for this purpose the Christian myth seemed a suitable choice. He was further encouraged by the fact that he had seen photo-reproductions of the Renaissance masterpieces which had left him dissatisfied. It was wrong, he thought, that these painters should attempt to convey the essentially human character of Christ by naturalistic or representational means; and he wanted to show that the human and the divine could be made one only by abstract, symbolic means…
…he (J.R.) has introduced into these portraits a new tenderness and a quality of intense homeliness which neither the Byzantine, with his abstract intensity and other-worldly mysticism, nor the humanist painter, with his essentially human conception of Christ, had ever quite captured. We are inclined to think that this has been done before only by the medieval folk-artists of Western Europe, or perhaps by the simple-minded and pious authors of the Russian icon… In particular, one can find a close parallel between Jamini Roy’s studies of Christ (Plates XI, XII) and the anonymous French folk-painters of the 12th century whom Gauguin copied.
The genuine religious feeling in Jamini Roy’s Christ studies is striking; and here again we trace the assimilating mind of Hinduism at work, for perhaps it would be true to say that only the Hindu (who 1900 years ago gave asylum to St. Thomas) can experience genuine feeling for a religious myth that is essentially foreign to his own belief

In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Garuda On Horseback (1949), offered in the Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series VI: With Rare Drawings and Books on Indian Contemporary Art by Osian's, which concluded on 01 March 2006 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹32,20,000 ($72,604). 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.

His art started a trend not only in the fine art but also in illustration, design and applied art. The discovery of folk art and revival of handicrafts is one of the major achievements of our time, but we owe to Jamini Roy the vision to reconsider the values of folk art and to incorporate it in contemporary work something of its vitality, gaiety and innocence.

In 2015, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Krishna with Gopis (1950), offered in the Modern Indian Art by Asta Guru, which concluded on 21 August 2015 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹57,64,603 ($87,568.29). 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 Untitled (1950), offered in the Modern Indian Art by Asta Guru, which concluded on 09 September 2021 at Online, achieving a sale price of ₹83,47,135 ($113,275.64). 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 2004, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Christ (1966), offered in the The Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series: Indian Contemporary Art – Books, Paintings & Sculpture by Osian's, which concluded on 15 October 2004 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹18,40,777 ($40,139). 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 1995, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Mother and Children (1994), offered in the Islamic and Indian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 27 April 1995 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹2,32,714 ($7,414). 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, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Bonhams: Modern and Contemporary Paintings (June 2001, New York), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2006, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Bonhams: Islamic and Indian Art (April 2006, New Delhi), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2007, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Osians: ABC Series III (March 2007, Bengaluru), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2014, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Art Bull: Pre-independence Modern & Contemporary Masters (February 2014, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2017, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Asta Guru: Modern Indian Art (No Reserve Auction) (December 2017, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2019, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Asta Guru: Modern Indian Art (May 2019, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2020, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Asta Guru: Modern Indian Art-No Reserve Auction (June 2020, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

In 2022, an artwork by Jamini Roy was featured on the cover of Saffronart: The Art of India Online Auction (May 2022, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.