Government Approved Painting Valuers India — The Flagship Specialty

On 19 March 2025, Christie’s London sold M.F. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra) for ₹119 crore — India’s auction peak for paintings, achieved in London by the world’s oldest auction house in front of a global collector audience.

India’s painting market spans an extraordinary range: from 16th-century Mughal court miniatures whose pigment chemistry confirms imperial atelier production; through 19th-century Bengal School wash drawings by Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose; through the Progressive Artists’ Group of 1947 onward whose blue-chip works now command nine-figure prices internationally; to contemporary Indian art increasingly traded through Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Pundole’s.

Each Indian painting category has its own market dynamics, attribution criteria, and comparable evidence sources. Painting valuation under Section 34AB is a specialty within a specialty — distinct from sculpture, antiquities, and jewellery.

A2Z Valuers, under Nitesh Shrivastava — Civil Engineer, Government Approved Valuer in Section 34AB — is positioned as a specialist painting valuation practice. ISO 9001:2000 · PAN India · 250+ professional valuation services across India.