Yan BoLong Auction Prices and Value Guide

Yan BoLong auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 173 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Yan BoLong auction prices: quick answer

Yan BoLong auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Yan BoLong
Source records
173
Market update
2026-02-06

Yan BoLong market snapshot

Yan BoLong shows solid auction liquidity with 129 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.3% · 21 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (33.8% · 26 sales)
  • $10,000+ (39.0% · 30 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
10
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-18

Artist context

About Yan BoLong

Born

1898

Died

1954

Nationality

Chinese

Also known as

Yan Bolong, Yan Yunlin, 颜伯龙, Changbaibuyi

Yan BoLong (1898–1954) was a Chinese painter whose identity is recorded in Wikidata, VIAF, and the Library of Congress authority system. Authority records also connect him with the names Yan Yunlin, 颜伯龙, and Changbaibuyi, which can help collectors distinguish relevant catalogues and auction listings from similarly named artists. A bibliographic entry associated with his authority record highlights birds, bamboo, and flowers, subjects connected with Chinese bird-and-flower painting. The available source pack does not document a specific movement, school, training history, or formal career period, so those associations should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Yan BoLong in painting and works-on-paper categories, sometimes under variant transliterations or Chinese characters. Careful name matching is therefore important when comparing records. His public auction history provides evidence of an established secondary-market presence, but individual objects still require examination of medium, inscriptions, condition, provenance, date, and attribution.

PaintingWorks on paper and printsBirdsBambooFlowers

Common works and media

Auction and authority data most clearly support paintings and works on paper associated with birds, bamboo, and flowers. Variant names and Chinese-character signatures may appear in cataloguing. The public market page also uses broader categories such as prints, editions, sculpture, mixed media, and decorative art, but those aggregated classifications should be verified against each lot and should not, by themselves, be treated as evidence that Yan BoLong personally worked in every listed medium.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market index reports auction results for Yan BoLong across a 2004–2026 sale-date range, including priced and unpriced records. Results span a wide range, so a headline median or overall price range should not be used as a stand-alone valuation. Strong comparisons match the object's medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, inscriptions, attribution status, and provenance as closely as possible. Restoration, uncertain authorship, incomplete cataloguing, and differences in whether reported prices include buyer's premium can reduce comparability. Auction evidence is most useful when several recent, genuinely similar lots can be reviewed together; private transactions and sales absent from the indexed feed remain outside that evidence base.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and period within the artist's career
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Recent comparable public auction sales for similar works
  6. Subject matter, rarity, and current market demand

Appraisal caveats

  • Public auction records are a starting point rather than a complete appraisal.
  • Private sales, incomplete auction feeds, and later attribution changes may not be represented.
  • Authentication, attribution, condition, and reporting conventions can materially affect comparisons.
  • Broad auction classifications should not be treated as proof that the artist worked in every category listed by an aggregated market index.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Yan BoLong

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Yan BoLong 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 Yan BoLong artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.