Yan Pei Ming Auction Prices and Value Guide
Yan Pei Ming auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 338 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Yan Pei Ming auction prices: quick answer
Yan Pei Ming auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Yan Pei Ming
- Source records
- 338
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Yan Pei Ming market snapshot
Yan Pei Ming shows solid auction liquidity with 85 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $18,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-25.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (26.2% · 16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (19.7% · 12 sales)
- $10,000+ (54.1% · 33 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $20,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 2
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-06-25
Artist context
About Yan Pei Ming
Born
1960
Nationality
Chinese
Also known as
Yan Pei-Ming
Yan Pei Ming is a Chinese painter associated with France, where the collected biographical sources place him in Dijon. He is best known for forceful, large-scale portraits whose figures emerge through broad, rapid brushwork. Public descriptions particularly identify his portraits of Mao Zedong and note his recurring use of restricted black-and-white or red-and-white palettes. These features give many works an immediately recognizable visual structure: a dominant face or figure, emphatic tonal contrast, and an energetic painted surface. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with contemporary portrait painting and works that transform political or historically recognizable figures into monumental images. The available source pack supports his identity as a painter and his Chinese origin, but it does not establish a specific art movement from an institution-grade source. His exact birth year also remains unresolved because the collected authority and encyclopedia-style records conflict.
PaintingLarge-scale brush paintingPortraitsMao Zedong
Common works and media
Yan Pei Ming is principally documented in the collected sources as a painter of large-scale portraits. Works may feature broad, rapid brushwork and restricted black-and-white or red-and-white palettes. Portraits of Mao Zedong are specifically noted, alongside the broader category of figurative portrait painting. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other media as common auction offerings.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisal should begin with the individual object rather than a general assumption about the artist's market. For Yan Pei Ming, useful comparisons should account for work type, dimensions, portrait subject, palette, execution, and date. Monumental portraits should not automatically be compared with smaller or materially different works, and a Mao subject may belong to a different comparison set from another sitter. Condition, provenance, inscriptions, and attribution still require object-specific verification. When public auction records are available, sale date, realized price, auction-house description, and similarity of the comparable lot provide more useful context than an isolated headline result. The collected sources do not support a price forecast or market-trend claim.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Portrait paintings
Value drivers
- Scale and dimensions, particularly when comparing monumental portraits with smaller works
- Portrait subject, including whether the sitter is Mao Zedong
- Palette and execution, including black-and-white or red-and-white compositions and visibly rapid brushwork
- Sale date, realized price, and similarity to comparable public auction lots when records are available
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not include a detailed major-auction-house biography or individual lot records, so no price trend, record price, or market direction is asserted.
- Authorship, condition, provenance, dimensions, and the exact work date require object-specific examination and cannot be established from the artist identity sources alone.
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
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
- Wikimedia Commons image repository
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 Yan Pei Ming 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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Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.