# Lijun Fang artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lijun-fang/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:07:35.606Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Cynical Realism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

## About Lijun Fang

Fang Lijun, presented on this page as Lijun Fang, is a Chinese artist born in 1963 and based in Beijing. Library authority records identify him as a painter and printmaker, while published summaries associate him with the emergence of Cynical Realism in China during the 1990s. His work is especially recognizable for recurring bald male figures, often shown with partly open mouths; this figure type is reported across paintings, prints, and sculpture. That combination of repeated human imagery and multiple media helps explain why collectors may encounter works attributed to him in several auction categories rather than under painting alone. The source pack also records his name in simplified and traditional Chinese, supporting entity matching across catalogues and authority databases. Because the available institutional material is chiefly authority metadata rather than a substantive museum biography, the movement, period, and subject descriptions presented here should be treated as concise research context rather than catalogue-raisonné conclusions.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings and prints associated with Fang Lijun, while a secondary source also reports sculpture. Recurring bald male figures and partly open mouths are described as recognizable imagery. Because the sculpture and subject evidence in this source pack comes from secondary summaries, each object should be catalogued according to its observable medium and documented attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Market comparison should separate paintings from prints and any sculptures because the source pack identifies distinct media and work types. Within those groups, recurring bald-figure imagery may help narrow visually relevant comparables, but it does not establish authorship. Appraisily’s public artist page is the supplied auction-record signal and can provide sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This research pack does not contain a major-auction-house biography, individual lot notes, or realized-price examples, so it cannot support a price forecast, trend claim, or specific premium for a medium, subject, or period.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947892
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125638
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/85880092/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Lijun
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Lijun
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Lijun
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lijun-fang/