# Seong Moy artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/seong-moy/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:35:07.907Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## Portrait

![Seong Moy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Seong_Moy.jpg)
Smithsonian Institution · No restrictions
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seong_Moy.jpg

## About Seong Moy

Seong Moy (1921–2013) was a Chinese-born American painter and printmaker whose public identity is linked across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art. These authority and museum records make him a well-resolved artist entity, although the collected sources do not provide a detailed institutional biography. His documented practice spans painting and printmaking. VIAF’s linked-title data points to works involving bathers, birds, animals, and a classical horse and rider, offering useful subject clues without establishing a complete catalogue or formal series. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings and graphic works, but object-level identification should rely on the work itself and verified catalogue or auction documentation. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement or school, so this profile avoids assigning one. Moy’s authority identifiers help distinguish his records from similarly named artists and connect museum, library, and auction references.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Seong Moy may appear as paintings or prints and other graphic works. VIAF-linked titles document subjects including bathers, birds, animals, and a classical horse and rider. These references help describe the range visible in authority data, but they do not prove that any subject was dominant, define a complete series, or establish the authorship of an object submitted for appraisal.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish Seong Moy as both a painter and a printmaker and identify a dedicated Appraisily auction-record page, but they do not supply readable lot-level descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or edition statements. This profile therefore makes no price-range, market-direction, or premium claims. An appraisal should compare the individual object with verified public records that match its medium and work type. Paintings and prints should not be treated as interchangeable comparables, and authority-linked titles should not be taken as evidence that an unidentified object is authentic or attributable to Moy.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct when the collected auction data is incomplete.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7451573
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/92232847/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500040906
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seong_Moy
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4134
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5043.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/seong-moy/