Guangyi Wang Auction Prices and Value Guide
Guangyi Wang auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 645 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Guangyi Wang auction prices: quick answer
Guangyi Wang auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Guangyi Wang
- Source records
- 645
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Guangyi Wang market snapshot
Guangyi Wang shows deep auction liquidity with 428 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $61,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-06.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (8.3% · 23 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (20.5% · 57 sales)
- $10,000+ (71.2% · 198 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $600
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 6
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-06
Artist context
About Guangyi Wang
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Born
1957
Nationality
Chinese
Also known as
Wang Guangyi
Guangyi Wang, also indexed as Wang Guangyi, is a Chinese contemporary artist born in 1957. He is widely associated with Political Pop and with the generation of Chinese contemporary art that emerged around the end of the 1980s. Collectors most often recognize his Great Criticism series, which places socialist or Cultural Revolution-era imagery in tension with Western consumer-brand logos. That juxtaposition makes political ideology, mass communication, and consumer culture central contexts for reading the work. Although painting is the best-documented part of his practice in the collected sources, he has also worked in sculpture and installation. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across more than one object category rather than only on canvas. Stable records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, BnF, and MoMA help distinguish the artist across catalogues, collection databases, and auction records, where his name may appear in either Western or Chinese name order.
Political PopContemporary Chinese art emerging around the end of the 1980sPaintingSculptureInstallation artSocialist and Cultural Revolution-era imageryWestern consumer-brand logosThe relationship between political ideology and consumer culture
Common works and media
The source pack most clearly documents paintings from the Great Criticism series, characterized by combinations of socialist or Cultural Revolution-era imagery and Western consumer-brand logos. Sculpture and installation are also documented parts of Wang Guangyi's practice. The available evidence does not establish a reliable taxonomy of editions, prints, or other recurring auction formats, so any such object should be classified from its own medium statement, inscriptions, provenance, and supporting documentation rather than assumed from the artist's name alone.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal should begin by establishing the work type and determining whether the object has a documented relationship to a named series, especially Great Criticism. Its socialist imagery, consumer-brand iconography, and medium can help identify relevant comparison groups, but visual resemblance alone does not establish authorship. Public auction records are most useful when the comparison involves closely related works and the record clearly supplies a sale date and realized price. Provenance, condition, attribution, and any catalogue or exhibition documentation should be assessed for the individual object before drawing a value conclusion. The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible major-auction-house market analysis, so unsupported price trends or forecasts are intentionally omitted.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Sculptures
- Installation works
Value drivers
- Series identification, including whether a work belongs to the Great Criticism series
- Medium and work type, distinguishing paintings from sculpture and installation work
- Subject and iconography, particularly the combination of socialist imagery with Western consumer-brand logos
- Comparable public auction records for closely related works, including sale date and realized price when available
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not provide an accessible major-auction-house market essay or a verified price-trend analysis.
- A series resemblance should not be treated as confirmed attribution; authorship, provenance, condition, and catalogue information require examination for the individual object.
- Public auction results are historical comparables, not guarantees of current value or future sale price.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Bibliothèque nationale de France library authority
Data basis
This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Guangyi Wang worth?
Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.
Can Appraisily value my Guangyi Wang artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.