# Hufan Wu artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hufan-wu/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:05:04.832Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1894-08-13
- Death date: 1968-07-07
- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Modern Chinese painting (guohua)
- Common media: Chinese painting

## About Hufan Wu

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Wu Hufan, the current identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10919634
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/57824384/
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E6%B9%96%E5%B8%86