First
Send the photographs
The front, the back, the signature and any labels, with whatever papers you hold. You are answered the same day, and the opening assessment is not chargeable.
1906 to 1980. What the public record shows, and how a particular work is valued against it.
AB / RECORD
Figures are as published by the saleroom and are kept in the currency in which they were reported. A record is one exceptional work, not a price list.
AB / SELLING
First
The front, the back, the signature and any labels, with whatever papers you hold. You are answered the same day, and the opening assessment is not chargeable.
Then
The house values against comparable public results for the same artist, period and medium, and sets them beside the figure so you can check the reasoning yourself.
And
The work is offered quietly to collectors who are looking for it. If it does not sell, no public record exists to say so.
The house deals in modern and contemporary Indian art. A work more than a hundred years old is an antiquity under the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act 1972, which the house does not handle.
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AB / FAQ
The highest price published for Ramkinkar Baij at public auction is $699,161, for Father & Son, AstaGuru, 2026. The figure is as published by the saleroom.
Send photographs of the front, the back and the signature, with any papers you hold. Arts Bespoke replies the same day with what it sees, and the opening assessment is not chargeable. A written valuation follows, with the comparable public results set beside the figure.
A signature alone proves nothing. What carries weight is an unbroken ownership history, any exhibition or publication record, and an examination of the work itself. The house tells you plainly how strong the evidence is.
No. A record is the top of one artist's market, set by one exceptional work. Period, medium, size, condition and history decide where a particular work sits beneath it.
Enquiries
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AB / WORKS

Devotional & narrative
Ramesh Gorjala. A saffron face in profile, a gold ring at the nostril, sets the key of the canvas.

Landscape, nature & trees
Chandra Morkonda. A great tree stands against a vermilion ground, its leaves shaped in blue and veined in gold, each a small tree in itself, set over a field of ringed and patterned colour.

Abstract
Prakash Bal Joshi. A square field worked in ultramarine, violet and teal, with a vermilion form rising through the centre and two dark verticals standing before it.

Devotional & narrative
Ramesh Gorjala. A turquoise face in profile, the tilak white against it, looks quietly out of the canvas.
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