# Masaaki Yamada artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/masaaki-yamada/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:11:50.712Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese
- Common media: Painting

## About Masaaki Yamada

Masaaki Yamada is identified by Wikidata and a corroborating Wikipedia entry as a Japanese painter. His identity is also connected to established authority records maintained by Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, which help distinguish the artist in library, museum, and collection data. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings and public auction records. The available source material, however, is much stronger for entity identification than for biography: it does not securely establish birth or death dates, artistic movements, recurring subjects, named series, training, exhibitions, or institutional holdings. Appraisily therefore presents Yamada primarily as a documented Japanese painter while avoiding unsupported stylistic or historical classifications. Further museum, gallery, estate, or catalogue research would be needed before expanding the biography or connecting individual works to a particular period of his career.

## Common works and media

The collected public sources support painting as Masaaki Yamada's documented field. They do not provide enough evidence to identify particular painting media, subjects, formats, named series, editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters as characteristic of his output. Auction and appraisal records should therefore describe the actual object rather than assign an unsupported category or period.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction records associated with Masaaki Yamada can provide a starting point for comparison, but they should be evaluated work by work. Useful appraisal evidence may include the medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, attribution, and the relevance of genuinely comparable public sales; the collected source pack does not document artist-specific effects for those factors. Because the available biographical evidence is limited, confirming identity through stable authority records is especially important before connecting an object or auction result to this painter. Appraisily does not infer price direction, scarcity, or authenticity from the artist name or record count alone. Any valuation conclusion should be based on the examined object and sufficiently similar, well-documented transactions.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105711544
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500587932
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/251311535/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98015538
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Yamada_(K%C3%BCnstler)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/masaaki-yamada/