Background
Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala was born to an affluent Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His mother belonged to the aristocratic Cowasjee Jehangir family.
Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala was born to an affluent Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His mother belonged to the aristocratic Cowasjee Jehangir family.
He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai"s Sir J. J. School of Art in 1944. Thereafter he went to Europe and studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, (1945-1947), and in Academie Andre Lhote, Paris (1948-1951), the Académie Julian (1953-1954), and finally at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1957.
Sabavala did not allow archives of his 12 scrapbooks on materials from the early 1940s to the 2000 online. In 2010, another film about his life was made, The Inheritance of Light: Jehangir Sabavala. His last solo exhibition, "Ricorso", was held at the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, in 2008.
In 2010, one of his serene landscapes called Casuarina Lincolnshire fetched Rs 17 million at a Saffronart auction.
One of his paintings titled Vespers 1, was sold for £253,650 (Rs 21 million) at a Bonhams sale in London.