# Ru Pu artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ru-pu/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T08:52:25.523Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1896-09-02
- Death date: 1963-11-18
- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Traditional Chinese painting
- Common media: Painting, Calligraphy, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Ru Pu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/%E6%BA%A5%E5%BF%83%E7%95%AC.jpeg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%BA%A5%E5%BF%83%E7%95%AC.jpeg

## About Ru Pu

Ru Pu is the input name associated by the collected authority records with Puru (1896–1963), the traditional Chinese painter and calligrapher widely known as Pu Xinyu. Xinyu was his courtesy name, while Han Yutang and Xishanyishi were among the other names connected with him. A member of the Manchu Aisin Gioro imperial clan, he belonged to the generation whose life crossed the end of Qing rule and the development of twentieth-century Chinese art. Sources describe him as both a painter and calligrapher, and the Chinese-language biographical record also identifies him as a teacher in the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University. Collectors may therefore encounter his work under several Romanized names, Chinese characters, courtesy names, or studio names. Careful entity matching is especially important because the public page's short name, Ru Pu, differs from the preferred name found in major authority records.

## Common works and media

The strongest identity sources describe Puru as a traditional Chinese painter and calligrapher, so paintings, calligraphic works, and works on paper are the most securely supported types for entity matching. Appraisily's auction index also uses broader labels that include prints, editions, mixed media, sculpture, and decorative art, but the collected evidence does not establish those labels as characteristic parts of his accepted body of work. Subject, support, inscriptions, seals, attribution, and catalogue history should therefore be checked object by object rather than inferred from a broad auction category.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work catalogued as Ru Pu corresponds to Puru or Pu Xinyu, since several personal, courtesy, and studio names are associated with the artist. The available Appraisily records indicate that medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and attribution confidence can all affect comparison with public auction results. Comparable lots should match the object type and physical characteristics as closely as possible. Broad category labels and a median result cannot establish the value of an individual work, while private sales, incomplete feeds, differing fee conventions, and later attribution changes may limit direct comparison.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution revisions may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3325881
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125627
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/65359992/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82130740
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puru_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%A5%E5%BF%83%E7%95%AC
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ru-pu/