[1][2][3][4] Jehangir Ardeshir Sabavala was born to an affluent Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

He studied at Cathedral and John Connon School, Elphinstone College, and earned a diploma from Mumbai's Sir J. J.

His work is in several important private and public collections, such as the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Birla Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, Parliament House, New Delhi, The Punjab Government Museum, Chandigarh, Air India Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and The National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

[9] Arun Khopkar's film on Sabavala's life and art, Colours of Absence, won the National Award in 1994.

[11] In 2010, one of his serene landscapes called Casuarina Line fetched Rs 17 million at a Saffronart auction.