In 2025, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Trussed Bull (1956), offered in the 25th Anniversary Sale by Saffronart, which concluded on 02 April 2025 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of ₹61,80,00,000 ($7,270,588). 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 expressionist period reached its climax around 1959. Then a new theme appears, the ‘Falling Figures’ which indicates a change of style and mood. In the ‘Falling Figures’ the colours become lighter, the paint looser. At first, Tyeb is still preoccupied with textures; and the emotional content is strong. One can still speak of the symbolism of these paintings: falling figure, Icarus, suicide, alienation, disorientation of modern man – one could continue the string of associations almost indefinitely. For the first time the tortured, screaming heads appear in these paintings; the drawing is beginning to acquire that sparse precision, which is so characteristic of Tyeb Mehta today.

He uses oil paint as though born to it. He constructs his image with the intense logic ofa de Stael, of a Cezanne. He makes absolutely no gimmicky use of his national origins… Nevertheless, it is Tyeb’s profound sense of personal identity, of national origin and of voluntary exile, which gives him an unfailing ability to depict compassion. A trussed bull, a red shawl, the nayika: these come directly from Tyeb’s familiarity with Indian attitudes and from his knowledge of, and commitment to, the mythology of a tradition and more unbroken than the whole of Western civilization. If his figures are those of the Greek nude, his language that of twentieth century Western painting, and his pride as restrained as the foreigner imagines that of the English gentleman to be, then it is equally true that his feeling for colour is from the East, his static shapes as immobile as the Buddha, and his personality approaching the Indian ideal of a short circuit between emotion and spirit.Tyeb is a painter among painters. His roots draw substance from both East and West; and he is, himself, of neither- or of both.

The paintings are singularly bereft of any environment…the use of formal elements and most recently the use of the diagonal is instrumental in creating different planes on the flat surface of the canvas. Their interaction is managed through the use of colour, which necessarily has to be, in this case, non-harmonic and atonal. There is a directed attempt at discovering every nuance which the imagery requires, in painting, the interplay of the figure with the formal elements

In 1997, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Diagonal Series (1972), offered in the Indian Contemporary Art by Christie's, which concluded on 04 June 1997 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹6,59,689 ($18,440). 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 1999, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Diagonal Series (1972), offered in the Twentieth Century Indian Art by Christie's, which concluded on 05 October 1999 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹7,45,946 ($17,113). 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 Untitled (1976), 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 ₹1,44,463 ($4,600). 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.

In 2000, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1976), offered in the Contemporary Indian Paintings: From the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection by Sotheby's, which concluded on 05 December 2000 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹33,98,850 ($72,625). 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 1996, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1979), offered in the Contemporary Indian Paintings: From The Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust Part II by Sotheby's, which concluded on 03 April 1996 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹5,46,193 ($16,100). 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 Untitled (1982), 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 ₹4,69,505 ($14,950). 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 2000, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1983), offered in the Contemporary Indian Paintings: From the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection by Sotheby's, which concluded on 05 December 2000 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹15,42,060 ($32,950). 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 2008, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1984), offered in the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art by Christie's, which concluded on 11 June 2008 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹8,22,95,790 ($1,918,764). 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.