# Don Hong-Oai artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/don-hong-oai/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:55:41.510Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Photography

## About Don Hong-Oai

Don Hong-Oai (1929–2004) is identified by Wikidata and VIAF as a Chinese photographer. VIAF also records the inverted name form Hong-Oai, Don and the Chinese name 單雄威. The available authority evidence establishes his identity and profession, but the collected source pack does not include a museum biography, estate archive, or scholarly catalogue supporting a detailed account of his training, chronology, or movement affiliation. This profile therefore treats photography, rather than a more specific school, as the firm art-historical context. Collectors encounter his name in public auction data: Appraisily's collected page snapshot reports matched records spanning 2010–2026. Those records can help locate comparable objects, but each entry should be examined for photographic process, dimensions, date, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, condition, and confidence in attribution. More specific claims about pictorialism or national identity beyond the Chinese authority description require further institutional research.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Don Hong-Oai as a photographer, making photographic works the best-supported category for appraisal and auction research. The collected sources do not establish a dependable list of specific processes, subjects, series, or edition practices. Each encountered work should therefore be catalogued from its own physical and documentary evidence, including process, support, dimensions, image and printing dates, signature or inscriptions, edition markings, condition, and provenance.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected snapshot lists 46 matched auction records, including 37 with reported prices, and an observed range of $30 to $6,000. It also reports a median realized result around $1,116. These figures describe the indexed sample, not a prediction for another photograph. An appraisal should prioritize records with a comparable photographic process, size, date, subject, condition, attribution, and edition status. Signatures and inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, restoration history, and current demand may also affect how a work compares with the public record. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, reporting conventions, and later attribution changes can limit direct comparisons, so auction data should be combined with object-specific examination and documentation.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Gaps in institutional biography, private-sale data, cataloguing, and attribution are preserved as research limitations.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73478
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/46309539/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00072038
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000043941717
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/don-hong-oai/
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3-%D0%9E%D0%B0%D0%B9