Acrylic and abstract painting price in Bangladesh, by size (2026)

Looking for acrylic paint? Tube and set prices first

If you want to paint, not buy a painting: acrylic sets cost ৳280 to about ৳1,100 on Rokomari in November 2026, and a single 75 or 100 ml tube ৳135 to ৳169. A blank 16 × 20 inch canvas cost ৳125 at Ahbab Art Store.

Berger Artista was the first acrylic paint for artists made in Bangladesh, launched in October 2021 in seven shades, Dhaka Tribune reported. At launch The Business Standard put it at ৳180 per 120 ml tube, when most imported acrylics cost ৳230 to ৳280 a tube. We couldn't find a current Berger Artista price online, so check with a stationery shop before you go.

The rest of this guide is about the other thing people search for: the price of a finished acrylic or abstract painting.

How much does an acrylic or abstract painting cost in Bangladesh?

In November 2026, the biggest group of acrylic paintings in Bikroy's classified ads asked ৳520 to ৳2,300, hand-painted decor canvases from studios started around ৳2,400, originals from online galleries ran ৳10,000 to ৳40,000, and a senior artist's acrylic was ৳2 lakh. The paint is the same at every level. Size and the painter's name set the price.

Acrylic and abstract painting prices by size and artist level

These are asking prices, many of them sale prices, so expect them to move. Bikroy's category also holds some paint sets and brushes, so read its bands as a rough guide. The Kazi Canvas Gallery figures for 30 × 36 inches come from its Facebook posts of 26 and 27 October 2026, as mirrored on Gluseum (secondary). For printed canvases, oil and watercolour, murals and auction records, see our painting price guide, which covers painting in general.

Our advice: at under ৳3,000, buy small and real. A 10 × 12 inch original by a named painter will outlast a large canvas that might be a copy.

Small acrylics by Umme Tamanna in Mymensingh, including an abstract in blue, orange and black:

What counts as an acrylic or abstract painting?

An acrylic painting is made with water-based, fast-drying paint that binds pigment in a synthetic resin. Tate, the British art museum group, notes that acrylic can be thinned to look like watercolour or used thickly like oil, and that it is waterproof once dry. Abstract art, in Tate's definition, doesn't try to show the visible world accurately. It uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks instead.

The two overlap but aren't the same. Most abstract canvases sold in Bangladesh are acrylic because it dries fast and is cheap, but an acrylic can be a landscape, a flower or calligraphy, and an abstract can be oil or mixed media. Two things follow for a buyer:

• Ask for the medium in writing. Because acrylic can imitate oil, an "oil painting" in a title may be acrylic. Neither is worse, but you should know what you're paying for.
• Judge an abstract by its surface. With no subject to admire, an abstract lives on its layers, edges and brushwork. Look at it close up, in person or in a video, before you pay.

What makes one acrylic painting cost more than another?

Mostly the painter and the size, not the materials. A blank 16 × 20 inch canvas cost ৳125 at Ahbab Art Store in November 2026, and Cezanne Art Gallery in Banani listed Nabaraj Roy's 16 × 20 inch acrylic on canvas at ৳30,000. The paint and cloth are a small slice of either price.

• The painter's standing. An artist with exhibitions and a gallery behind them charges for that record. Our painting price guide explains how Dhaka galleries set these prices with the artist.
• Size. Bigger costs more, but rarely in proportion. Asma Art Gallery's made-to-order abstract runs from ৳3,600 to ৳31,500 across sizes from 18 × 36 to 50 × 100 inches and three frame options. The largest canvas has almost eight times the area of the smallest.
• Texture medium. Paste, sand or texture powder under the acrylic adds material and drying time. If you want raised relief, our texture painting price guide covers what it costs.
• The frame. In October 2026 Kazi Canvas Gallery asked ৳15,000 for an 18 × 24 inch acrylic that came in a frame, and the same ৳15,000 for a 24 × 30 inch canvas with framing charged extra. Asma Art Gallery offers the same painting frameless, in a fibre frame or in wood. Always ask which one the price covers.
• Stretcher, board or loose canvas. Check whether the canvas comes stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang, on a flat board, or rolled.
• Varnish. Golden Artist Colors, which makes acrylic paints, says varnish protects acrylic paintings from dust and ultraviolet light. A varnished piece is better finished, and a listing that says so is worth a little more.
• Made to order. Asma Art Gallery takes about a week to paint an order and asks for a 50% advance. A custom size or colour costs more and can't be sent back on a whim.

Original, hand-painted copy or print: what are you paying for?

An original is a one-off painted by the artist who designed it. A hand-painted copy is real paint by a real hand, but of a design that already exists, sometimes many times over. A print is ink on canvas or board. All three get called "canvas painting" in Bangladeshi listings, and they shouldn't cost the same.

Read the listing slowly. One Dhaka shop listed a framed 18 × 36 inch acrylic at ৳7,500 (down from ৳11,000), described it as a "one-of-a-kind artwork" and, a few lines later, warned of "minor differences due to hand painted reproductions". Both can't be true of one canvas. When a listing mixes the words, ask the seller which it is.

How to check an acrylic before you pay:

• Look at the edges. Some painters carry the colour round the sides of a stretched canvas, as the listings for the Sabiha pieces below say. Ask for a photo of the sides as well as the front.
• Ask about the back. Asma Art Gallery signs on the back by default and on the front on request. A name, title and date on the back is what you want.
• Ask for progress photos. A painter can show the canvas half finished. A reseller of prints can't.
• Ask whether it's the only one. If the seller has painted the same design ten times, it's decor, and it should be priced as decor.
• Get it in writing. Ask for the artist's name, the title, medium and size on the receipt or in the chat.

The zoom-in test for telling a print from paint is in our painting price guide.

On JADUZ, these are original acrylics by Sabiha in Jamalpur. Their listings say the sides are painted and the surface is varnished, and Where the Forest Breathes, a 24 × 24 inch canvas, was exhibited at Dhaka University:

Which size suits your wall?

Choose the size from the furniture under it, not from the price. Above a sofa or bed, the usual guide is art about two-thirds the furniture's width, so a 6-foot sofa takes about 48 inches of art. Our texture painting price guide sets out the sources and a size table. One 30 × 40 inch abstract or a pair of 20 × 30 inch canvases fills that space. A 12 × 16 inch acrylic suits a desk wall, a corridor or a shelf.

Our wall decoration ideas cover each wall in the home with sizes and hanging heights, and the drawing room decoration ideas and bedroom decoration ideas go room by room. For a bedroom, soft abstract colour or a quiet landscape stays calm. Save bold reds and blacks for the living room.

Small acrylics make easy gifts because size matters less. Two framed or miniature florals on JADUZ: a framed lily painting by Sanzia Hossain Naisa and a 3 × 3 inch blue flower by Sabiha.

Where can you buy acrylic and abstract paintings in Bangladesh?

From classified ads, decor studios, galleries, artists directly, and makers on JADUZ. Each suits a different budget.

• Bikroy and Facebook. The cheapest place to start, with ads from a few hundred taka. Meet the seller or ask for a video before paying, and ask the questions above.
• Decor studios. BeshiDeshi and Asma Art Gallery list hand-painted abstracts with sizes and prices online, and Asma paints to order.
• Online galleries of originals. Kazi Canvas Gallery, online only, says it began in 2018. It sells one-off oil and acrylic canvases and posts sizes and prices.
• Dhaka galleries. Cezanne Art Gallery in Banani and Edge Gallery list named artists with medium, size and price. Go to an exhibition opening to see the surface for yourself.
• JADUZ. Every piece in wall art is made by hand by a maker JADUZ has vetted, and approved before it goes live. You'll find acrylics for less on Bikroy. What you get here is a named maker you can look up, such as Umme Tamanna or Sabiha, a call to confirm the order, and cash on delivery anywhere in Bangladesh. You open the parcel in front of the rider before you pay, and if it's damaged, wrong or not as described, you hand it back and pay nothing (how that works).

If you paint acrylics or abstracts yourself, you can sell paintings on JADUZ.