Rina Banerjee — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works48

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

Hammer Museum

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Pompidou

Yale Center for British Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Williams College Museum of Art

Ackland Art Museum

Previous Sales 22

Christie's

Limp with Love, 2006

Bought In

Jun 2023

Christie's

Swing swing she was her Swamy’s sunshine while moo specks, flakes and frost flirted with her shape. The others not those who had fallen out of grace because of unfortunate race missed her but stayed though out of her way., 2011

$11,250

Sep 2019

Christie's

Eve in earnest and with an agreeable discomfort ripened, bruised and curious like fallen fruit in sleep, 2007

$12,500

Mar 2014

Christie's

In what seemed at first a monster's colonial dream, leprechauns of amber body and agile mind blew west wondering what it would be like to leave land, ocean, bird, bear, feline and the bounty of horned beasts, to leave our nature for culture, 2008

$30,000

Mar 2013

Christie's

Wondering Angel Insects, 2006

$12,500

Sep 2012

Christie's

She was Primitive and Childish but Escaped Extinction by Playing into Public Curiosity

$15,000

Mar 2012

Christie's

A World Made of Nature Created her Untidy Beauty, Captured her Maker's Eye but not Once but Thrice "Culture" who Played her a Fool, Maimed her Walk and Unsweetened her Magic, 2008

$18,750

Sep 2011

Christie's

It Rained so She Rained

$11,875

Sep 2011

Christie's

#6 In an unnatural world blind to human migration and interbreeding creatures with other features confused those who lived in temperate worlds - thier [sic] fruit would be fantastie beauty, 2008

£16,250 ($21k USD)

Jun 2011

Phillips

Dizzy with labor, Commerce, she spoke, spewed and sprouted her feudal bonds with vassal and lord, tradesmen and troops, slaves, servants and third worlds so to secure an insatiable pride in our movements away from place and home

$8,255

SBI Art Auction

An accidental and evanescent commerce..., 2013

¥1,322,500 ($8k USD)

Mar 2026

Christie's

Pink woman, bird girl..., 2010

$5,040

Mar 2025

Christie's

Feathery fountain horn and funy finger nail, 2006

$8,064

Apr 2024

Christie's

Tightly footed upon this earth and owning only limbs of fruit and leaf too he fought to clear his throat of all other beings thaty float and fly and move about like you, 2006

$17,589

Sep 2022

Christie's

Feathery fountain horn and furty finger nail, 2006

$10,051

Sep 2022

ISCP Benefit Auction · Artsy

Beast of Dispossession, 2014

Bidding closed

Acrylic and ink on wood panel

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

A heart of two anchors, take one bird and take one butcher, from ear to ear, it's a familiar end yet she was with a wide grin, while meat and medicine poured, even played with the poverty of country, was still an unknown friend! So she withdrew her smile to clear one anchor that was not her faith, the other was my mother's brother, enchanted china, giggled with Africa and strayed to stay in whips of lamb leather, feathers stained, her shells would raise the last anchor human hate, 2011

No longer available

Mosquito net, fish bone, umbrella, artificial horn and pigeon feathers

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Gleaming gold of yellow porcelain with teeth and grit the flow of people removed one from one fell from sky and found new light, sore a spot beneath her wide part to steal her goddess her hear, 2014

No longer available

Acrylic, ink, collage on watercolor paper

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Droplets and social decisions carpeted her expression, a distaste for isolation melted as survivors hypnotized by sickness both viral and racial climbed out of Central Park to change all Delusions and impressions, 2020

No longer available

Acrylic and collage on paper

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Fortune Teller, a woman with inside eyes, your life's Gardener and to me say no more turn my pages bring me luck, your eye has voices, your choices spirited, your beauty brave brilliant free, 2019

No longer available

Acrylic and collage on paper

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Tropical profit, authentic dress, fish net braids, beads in bundles, Italian shoes, indigo dyed cottons, muslin or chintz, in her pineapple dress, alien edict, improper English she canopied among the merchants not really made of gold, diamond or coal, made of four-footed commerce stood., 2020

No longer available

Acrylic on paper

Perrotin · Artsy

A woman must keep moving, 2022

No longer available

Acrylic, ink on paper

For Sale 9

Perrotin · Artsy

Untitled 2*, 2011

US$2,500

Lithograph printed on 300 gram Veil d'Arches paper

Perrotin · Artsy

Solitude, in Cognito..*, 2014

US$3,200

Digital printing, hard & soft etching, drypoint, relief, and collage with UV plexi box frame

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Fungi : it drew the friendliest types, magnetic to older types, those whose permissive personalities made permanent stain can be even used as strong dye, while they had small color crafted life from leftovers , fussy although furry swam but stayed away from bleach and sister chlorine, 2012

Price on request

Acrylic on watercolor paper

Perrotin · Artsy

Once an Animal had strayed, 2021

Price on request

Acrylic, ink and collage on paper

Hosfelt Gallery · Artsy

Her hair was there while lost in one place. Not to stare if her sunny dome could be roped to be opened. Buttered in benevolence, seated dead center her a balding beacon, her mind a temple, crossing all paths, all forsaken, never stolen and always bolder., 2021

For sale

Ink and acrylic on paper

Hosfelt Gallery · Artsy

Mixed, mixed up, her islands could sweat, loose weight and then gain from pineapple Hawaiian to Puerto Rico picante and to fire island too, Haitian to Dominican this American America will not be still, never dull and never without new fruit., 2021

For sale

Ink and acrylic on paper

Hosfelt Gallery · Artsy

Our temper to surrender with no anger seeded, our weighted and tempered steely and stole tresses or our curled, bleached blonde mustaches all neglected in grooming now, quietly eaten., 2021

For sale

Ink, acrylic, collage and gold leaf on paper

Ota Fine Arts · Artsy

Mangroves of Alien and Native froze and foamed, rose and rose, opened and closed and one in all grew calm who knew, 2014

Price on request

Steel, plastic, nylon, light bulb, shell wire, cotton thread, feather

Perrotin · Artsy

Fastened to two walking sticks, 2020

Price on request

Metal, glass, sequins, feathers and wire

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Market48 auction results

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$8.3K – $30.0K

7 of 7 paintings lots with prices

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$15.7K

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$8.3K

7 priced paintings lots

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Mar 2026 · $8.3K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Paintings: $8.3K medianWorks on paper: $11.3K medianSculpture/objects: $9.1K median

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Christie'sSotheby'sPhillipsPhillips de Pury & CompanySaffronart

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Galleries5

#198 Vadehra Art Gallery

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#265 Galerie Volker Diehl

Instagram

#273 Ota Fine Arts

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Current Exhibitions1

Yale Center for British Art

Rina Banerjee: Take me, take me, take me . . . to the Palace of love

Rina Banerjee

1080 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Feb 7, 2026 — Sep 13, 2026

Rina Banerjee — Saturday, February 7, 2026 – Sunday, September 13, 2026

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Recent News10

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At Yale: the commercial empire within the British empire

The Yale Center for British Art presents 'Painters, Ports, and Profits,' an exhibition of 115 items spanning a century of art and history, focusing on…

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Exhibition Opening | Rina Banerjee: Take me, take me, take me . . . to the Palace of love at the Yale Center for British Art

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