Hufan Wu Auction Prices and Value Guide
Hufan Wu auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,239 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Hufan Wu auction prices: quick answer
Hufan Wu auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Hufan Wu
- Source records
- 1,239
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Hufan Wu market snapshot
Hufan Wu shows deep auction liquidity with 474 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $68,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 41 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-18.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (11.4% · 38 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (20.5% · 68 sales)
- $10,000+ (68.1% · 226 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $35,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 41
- Median shift vs prior year
- +100.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-18
Artist context
About Hufan Wu
Born
1894
Died
1968
Nationality
Chinese
Also known as
吴湖帆, Wu Hu-fan, Wu Hufan, Wu Wan
Wu Hufan (1894–1968), also catalogued as Wu Hu-fan and under several earlier, courtesy, and art names, was a Chinese artist and art collector. Public authority records establish his life years and connect multiple Romanized forms to the same person. A Chinese-language biographical source identifies him with modern guohua and describes him as a connoisseur of painting and calligraphy. That combination places Wu both among makers of modern Chinese painting and within its collecting and authentication history. Collectors may encounter records filed under Wu Hufan, Wu Hu-fan, Wu Wan, Wu Qian, Wu Yiyan, or related variants, making careful entity matching important. The present evidence securely supports his identity, dates by year, Chinese nationality, and broad association with Chinese painting. It is less complete concerning specific subjects, named series, institutional holdings, and the distinctions among his personal names, courtesy names, and studio names.
Modern Chinese painting (guohua)Chinese painting
Common works and media
Available sources identify Wu principally with modern Chinese painting and also connect him to painting-and-calligraphy connoisseurship. They do not provide a sufficiently detailed catalogue to state that particular subjects, formats, editions, or named series are common. Individual auction entries should therefore be assessed from their own cataloguing and matched across Wu Hufan's recorded name variants rather than assigned to a narrower work category from this profile alone.
Market and appraisal context
The available evidence is sufficient to identify Wu Hufan, but it is not sufficient for artist-specific price conclusions. VIAF records numerous forms of his name, so an appraisal should first reconcile the catalogued artist identity before comparing sales. The collected Appraisily page did not return usable lot details, and no major-auction-house biography or result excerpt is present. Consequently, this profile does not assert that any particular subject, format, period, condition, or provenance commands a premium. A defensible valuation should be built from object-specific examination and genuinely comparable public sales, with attribution level and cataloguing language kept explicit. Broader market conclusions should wait for verified lot-level evidence.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Value drivers
- Attribution and identity matching across recorded name variants before selecting comparable sales
Appraisal caveats
- The source pack contains no usable major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price evidence, so it does not support artist-specific conclusions about market premiums or price trends.
- The collected Appraisily page returned no usable lot-level content; common auction formats, subjects, dates, and condition sensitivities remain unverified.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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 Hufan Wu 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.
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