Market Intelligence

The Indian Art Market, in One Number.

HIAI is Hacoco's directional benchmark for the Indian secondary art market, built from normalized auction evidence across 73 tracked artists.

6776

Index 2026

+2.0%

1Y Return· Sensex -10.6%

+63.0%

3Y Return· Sensex +15.5%

+89.7%

5Y Return· Sensex +42.5%

About HIAI

HIAI is Hacoco's directional benchmark for the Indian secondary art market, built from normalized auction and resale evidence across tracked artists. It is designed to show market movement and liquidity signals, not guarantee the value of any individual artwork. Specific works require comparable-led analysis across medium, period, provenance, condition, rarity, and demand.

Market Regime

Selective Strength

Liquidity View

High in blue-chip names; mixed in emerging and weakly documented works

Confidence

Medium-High for tracked artists with auction depth; lower for thinly traded names

YTD

+2.0%

Base 100 in 2001 · 73artists · volume-weighted

HIAI Performance

Price appreciation index. Base 100 in 2001.

HIAI index

Each data point is the annual average price-per-cm² across contributing artists, rebased so 2001 = 100.

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Composition

73 artists

Index composition reflects tracked market evidence and may evolve as liquidity, auction depth, and artist relevance change over time.

Artist	Tier	Weight	Lots	Liquidity
A. A. Almelkar	Blue Chip	9.7%	1,000	A+
Amarnath Sehgal	Blue Chip	8.3%	852	A+
Anish Kapoor	Blue Chip	6.2%	635	A+
Krishen Khanna	Blue Chip	5.1%	525	A+
M. F. Husain	Blue Chip	5.1%	521	A+
Ram Kumar	Blue Chip	5.1%	521	A+
V. S. Gaitonde	Blue Chip	4.6%	469	A+
Jamini Roy	Blue Chip	3.9%	404	A+
F. N. Souza	Blue Chip	3.8%	391	A+
Akkitham Narayanan	Emerging	3.1%	323	B
B. Prabha	Blue Chip	2.7%	280	A+
Anju Dodiya	Blue Chip	2.5%	253	A+
A. Ramachandran	Established	2.3%	237	A
K. G. Subramanyan	Blue Chip	2.2%	224	A+
S. H. Raza	Blue Chip	2.2%	222	A+
Akbar Padamsee	Blue Chip	1.7%	172	A+
Jogen Chowdhury	Blue Chip	1.6%	163	A+
Anjolie Ela Menon	Established	1.6%	161	A
Manjit Bawa	Blue Chip	1.3%	138	A+
Ganesh Pyne	Blue Chip	1.3%	133	A+
K. H. Ara	Blue Chip	1.2%	123	A+
Bikash Bhattacharjee	Blue Chip	1.1%	110	A+
Bhupen Khakhar	Blue Chip	1.1%	108	A+
Tyeb Mehta	Blue Chip	0.9%	97	A+
Paritosh Sen	Blue Chip	0.9%	96	A+
Paresh Maity	Blue Chip	0.9%	93	A+
Laxma Goud	Established	0.9%	89	A
Subodh Gupta	Blue Chip	0.9%	88	A+
Sakti Burman	Blue Chip	0.8%	85	A+
Zarina Hashmi	Blue Chip	0.8%	81	A+
Atul Dodiya	Established	0.8%	80	A
Jehangir Sabavala	Blue Chip	0.7%	71	A+
Rameshwar Broota	Blue Chip	0.7%	70	A+
Avinash Chandra	—	0.7%	67	—
Shanti Dave	Established	0.7%	67	A
Paramjit Singh	Established	0.6%	65	A
Himmat Shah	Established	0.6%	63	A
Jitish Kallat	Established	0.6%	63	A
Manu Parekh	Established	0.6%	61	A
K. K. Hebbar	Blue Chip	0.6%	59	A+
Amrita Sher-Gil	Blue Chip	0.6%	59	A+
Badri Narayan	Emerging	0.6%	59	B
Satish Gujral	Blue Chip	0.6%	58	A+
Arpita Singh	Blue Chip	0.5%	53	A+
Shyamal Dutta Ray	Blue Chip	0.5%	49	A+
Somnath Hore	Established	0.5%	49	A
Nandalal Bose	Blue Chip	0.5%	48	A+
Laxman Pai	Blue Chip	0.5%	46	A+
T. V. Santosh	Established	0.4%	43	A
Rabindranath Tagore	Blue Chip	0.4%	42	A+
Lalu Prasad Shaw	Emerging	0.4%	37	B
Bharti Kher	Established	0.3%	33	A
Sohan Qadri	Established	0.3%	33	A
Sailoz Mookherjea	Blue Chip	0.3%	32	A+
Ganesh Haloi	Established	0.3%	30	A
Bimal Dasgupta	Emerging	0.3%	28	B
Nalini Malani	Established	0.3%	27	A
Piraji Sagara	Established	0.3%	26	A
Biren De	Blue Chip	0.2%	25	A+
Ravinder Reddy	Established	0.2%	25	A
Arpana Caur	Established	0.2%	25	A
Sunil Das	Established	0.2%	21	A
Meera Mukherjee	Established	0.2%	20	A
Jeram Patel	Established	0.2%	19	A
Rina Banerjee	Emerging	0.2%	18	B
Thota Vaikuntam	Blue Chip	0.2%	17	A+
Sudhir Patwardhan	Emerging	0.2%	17	B
Raja Ravi Varma	Blue Chip	0.1%	15	A+
Prodosh Das Gupta	Established	0.1%	14	A
Thukral & Tagra	Emerging	0.1%	13	B
Nasreen Mohamedi	Blue Chip	0.1%	13	A+
Pushpamala N	Emerging	0.1%	12	B
Rabin Mondal	Established	0.1%	11	A

Liquidity key

A+Blue ChipAEstablishedBEmerging SignalCSpeculative

Index composition — artist breakdown

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Market Commentary

June 2026

The Indian secondary art market continues to show selective strength, with demand concentrated around artists with visible auction history, institutional relevance, and credible collector provenance.

Blue-chip and established names remain the most liquid segment, but buyers are increasingly price-sensitive. Works with strong documentation, desirable periods, clean provenance, and fresh-to-market status continue to command stronger interest, while overexposed or weakly documented works are seeing longer sales cycles.

The market is becoming more evidence-led. Collectors are no longer relying only on artist reputation or gallery pricing; they are comparing auction results, private sale ranges, size-adjusted benchmarks, medium quality, and liquidity history before making purchase or resale decisions.

Emerging and mid-career artists remain active, but valuation confidence varies significantly. Works backed by consistent exhibition history, gallery representation, repeat collector demand, and early secondary-market signals are beginning to separate from purely speculative inventory.

Overall, the market remains constructive but disciplined. Quality, provenance, pricing realism, and comparable evidence are the key drivers of successful resale outcomes in the current cycle.

Hacoco Market Intelligence · Updated June 2026

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HIAI and related market commentary are informational and directional in nature. They do not constitute investment advice, an offer to buy or sell, or a guarantee of future performance. Art is illiquid, quality-sensitive, and subject to market, provenance, condition, and demand risk.

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Market Intelligence

The Indian Art Market, in One Number.

HIAI is Hacoco's directional benchmark for the Indian secondary art market, built from normalized auction evidence across 73 tracked artists.

6776

Index 2026

+2.0%

1Y Return· Sensex -10.6%

+63.0%

3Y Return· Sensex +15.5%

+89.7%

5Y Return· Sensex +42.5%

About HIAI

Market Regime

Selective Strength

Liquidity View

High in blue-chip names; mixed in emerging and weakly documented works

Confidence

Medium-High for tracked artists with auction depth; lower for thinly traded names

YTD

+2.0%

Base 100 in 2001 · 73artists · volume-weighted

HIAI Performance

Price appreciation index. Base 100 in 2001.

HIAI index

Each data point is the annual average price-per-cm² across contributing artists, rebased so 2001 = 100.

Own work by a tracked artist?

Run a collector-grade valuation using Hacoco's comparable evidence model.

Run valuation

Composition

73 artists

Index composition reflects tracked market evidence and may evolve as liquidity, auction depth, and artist relevance change over time.

Artist	Tier	Weight	Lots	Liquidity
A. A. Almelkar	Blue Chip	9.7%	1,000	A+
Amarnath Sehgal	Blue Chip	8.3%	852	A+
Anish Kapoor	Blue Chip	6.2%	635	A+
Krishen Khanna	Blue Chip	5.1%	525	A+
M. F. Husain	Blue Chip	5.1%	521	A+
Ram Kumar	Blue Chip	5.1%	521	A+
V. S. Gaitonde	Blue Chip	4.6%	469	A+
Jamini Roy	Blue Chip	3.9%	404	A+
F. N. Souza	Blue Chip	3.8%	391	A+
Akkitham Narayanan	Emerging	3.1%	323	B
B. Prabha	Blue Chip	2.7%	280	A+
Anju Dodiya	Blue Chip	2.5%	253	A+
A. Ramachandran	Established	2.3%	237	A
K. G. Subramanyan	Blue Chip	2.2%	224	A+
S. H. Raza	Blue Chip	2.2%	222	A+
Akbar Padamsee	Blue Chip	1.7%	172	A+
Jogen Chowdhury	Blue Chip	1.6%	163	A+
Anjolie Ela Menon	Established	1.6%	161	A
Manjit Bawa	Blue Chip	1.3%	138	A+
Ganesh Pyne	Blue Chip	1.3%	133	A+
K. H. Ara	Blue Chip	1.2%	123	A+
Bikash Bhattacharjee	Blue Chip	1.1%	110	A+
Bhupen Khakhar	Blue Chip	1.1%	108	A+
Tyeb Mehta	Blue Chip	0.9%	97	A+
Paritosh Sen	Blue Chip	0.9%	96	A+
Paresh Maity	Blue Chip	0.9%	93	A+
Laxma Goud	Established	0.9%	89	A
Subodh Gupta	Blue Chip	0.9%	88	A+
Sakti Burman	Blue Chip	0.8%	85	A+
Zarina Hashmi	Blue Chip	0.8%	81	A+
Atul Dodiya	Established	0.8%	80	A
Jehangir Sabavala	Blue Chip	0.7%	71	A+
Rameshwar Broota	Blue Chip	0.7%	70	A+
Avinash Chandra	—	0.7%	67	—
Shanti Dave	Established	0.7%	67	A
Paramjit Singh	Established	0.6%	65	A
Himmat Shah	Established	0.6%	63	A
Jitish Kallat	Established	0.6%	63	A
Manu Parekh	Established	0.6%	61	A
K. K. Hebbar	Blue Chip	0.6%	59	A+
Amrita Sher-Gil	Blue Chip	0.6%	59	A+
Badri Narayan	Emerging	0.6%	59	B
Satish Gujral	Blue Chip	0.6%	58	A+
Arpita Singh	Blue Chip	0.5%	53	A+
Shyamal Dutta Ray	Blue Chip	0.5%	49	A+
Somnath Hore	Established	0.5%	49	A
Nandalal Bose	Blue Chip	0.5%	48	A+
Laxman Pai	Blue Chip	0.5%	46	A+
T. V. Santosh	Established	0.4%	43	A
Rabindranath Tagore	Blue Chip	0.4%	42	A+
Lalu Prasad Shaw	Emerging	0.4%	37	B
Bharti Kher	Established	0.3%	33	A
Sohan Qadri	Established	0.3%	33	A
Sailoz Mookherjea	Blue Chip	0.3%	32	A+
Ganesh Haloi	Established	0.3%	30	A
Bimal Dasgupta	Emerging	0.3%	28	B
Nalini Malani	Established	0.3%	27	A
Piraji Sagara	Established	0.3%	26	A
Biren De	Blue Chip	0.2%	25	A+
Ravinder Reddy	Established	0.2%	25	A
Arpana Caur	Established	0.2%	25	A
Sunil Das	Established	0.2%	21	A
Meera Mukherjee	Established	0.2%	20	A
Jeram Patel	Established	0.2%	19	A
Rina Banerjee	Emerging	0.2%	18	B
Thota Vaikuntam	Blue Chip	0.2%	17	A+
Sudhir Patwardhan	Emerging	0.2%	17	B
Raja Ravi Varma	Blue Chip	0.1%	15	A+
Prodosh Das Gupta	Established	0.1%	14	A
Thukral & Tagra	Emerging	0.1%	13	B
Nasreen Mohamedi	Blue Chip	0.1%	13	A+
Pushpamala N	Emerging	0.1%	12	B
Rabin Mondal	Established	0.1%	11	A

Liquidity key

A+Blue ChipAEstablishedBEmerging SignalCSpeculative

Index composition — artist breakdown

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Market Commentary

June 2026

The Indian secondary art market continues to show selective strength, with demand concentrated around artists with visible auction history, institutional relevance, and credible collector provenance.

Overall, the market remains constructive but disciplined. Quality, provenance, pricing realism, and comparable evidence are the key drivers of successful resale outcomes in the current cycle.

Hacoco Market Intelligence · Updated June 2026

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