Xiongcai Li Auction Prices and Value Guide
Xiongcai Li auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 765 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Xiongcai Li auction prices: quick answer
Xiongcai Li auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Xiongcai Li
- Source records
- 765
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Xiongcai Li
Li Xiongcai (黎雄才, 1910–2001) was a Chinese landscape painter and educator, recognized as one of the leading figures of the Lingnan School of painting. Born in Guangdong province, he studied under Gao Jianfu, a founder of the movement, which sought to modernize traditional Chinese painting by incorporating Western perspective and color techniques while preserving classical ink traditions. Li spent most of his career active in Guangdong and became known for his distinctive landscape compositions combining pine trees, rocks, and flowing water. Over his lifetime he produced an estimated four thousand works, contributing significantly to modern Chinese ink painting both as a practitioner and as an educator who trained subsequent generations of artists.
Lingnan Schoolink and color on paperlandscape paintingpine trees, stones, and water
Common works and media
Li Xiongcai's body of work is dominated by landscape paintings in ink and color on paper, frequently depicting mountainous scenery with pine trees, rocky outcrops, waterfalls, and rivers. Common formats include hanging scrolls, handscrolls, album leaves, and framed works. Subject matter also extends to bird-and-flower paintings and figure studies within landscape settings, though these are less frequently encountered at auction.
Market and appraisal context
Li Xiongcai's works have appeared at eight auction houses over a seventeen-year span (2008–2025), including Christie's, Bonhams, and Beijing Nine International Auction, confirming institutional recognition. The Appraisily auction-record index tracks 11 priced lots with a wide price spread: from $300 USD at regional U.S. houses up to HKD 75,000 (Christie's, 2008) and RMB 60,000 (Beijing Nine, 2014). The median realized price is $1,586 USD. However, liquidity is thin—only one lot appeared in the prior 12 months (March 2023, SGD 900) and none in the most recent 12 months. Multi-currency results (USD, GBP, SGD, RMB, HKD) make direct price comparison imperfect without conversion. The higher-value lots tend to be fully attributed works at major houses, while regional-house results cluster in the low hundreds to low thousands of dollars, some labelled 'attributed to' rather than firmly attributed. The market for Li Xiongcai is established but low-volume outside mainland China, where Lingnan School paintings trade more actively at houses like China Guardian and Beijing Nine.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- ink and color on paper
- Chinese watercolor painting
- landscape painting
Value drivers
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Appraisal caveats
- No major auction-house source was available in the collected source pack; comparable sale records from Christie's, Sotheby's, or China Guardian should be consulted for current market pricing.
- The Getty ULAN record (authority file) was temporarily unavailable and could not be fully cross-referenced.
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Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF / OCLC library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Getty Vocabulary Program 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.
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