In 1995, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Nuptial Bubbles (1974), offered in the Contemporary Indian Paintings: From The Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust by Sotheby's, which concluded on 12 June 1995 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹3,97,273 ($12,650). 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.

On 12 June 1995, Ranbir Kaleka made their debut in the Indian public auction market when The Simulator was presented as Lot 61 in Contemporary Indian Paintings: From The Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust, conducted by Sotheby's in New York, USA. This auction marked the artist's first recorded appearance in the public auction market, establishing the earliest chapter of their auction history.

The image of ‘going away’ begins to appear more and more like a balladic turning, a poetic shift… This is not a visible, continuous image of transference. Here the stories finally separate from the figures in which they could have hoped to find a home. The figures are over-valorised in their fluidity and pose, and deny themselves the privilege of subjectivity even as they become suffused as raw, pre-narrative instincts. One walks through the libidinal being. The erotica, here, is non-definitive, even non-descriptive. One can think of very few, hardly any, examples in our tradition where the erotica aspires towards an elemental sign as it does here. Against the narrative-argument, against its orality and logic, the space of the carnivalesque opens up like a spell, like so many simultaneities.

In 2007, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Woman With Mirror (2000), 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 ₹12,00,000 ($29,644). 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 2002, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Two Women With A Lizard (2002), offered in the Masterpieces & Museum Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings by Osian's, which concluded on 05 December 2002 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹7,15,000 ($14,822). 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 2013, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (Twisted Rope) (2004), offered in the The Amaya Collection: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 19 March 2013 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹17,63,564 ($32,500). 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 2018, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Cul-de-sac in Taxila (2014), offered in the Boundless India by Sotheby's, which concluded on 29 November 2018 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹18,75,000 ($26,817.93). 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.