# Shanyue Guan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/shanyue-guan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:14:30.887Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1912-10-25
- Death date: 2000-07-03
- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Lingnan School
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Shanyue Guan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/zh/9/9f/Guan_Shan_Yue.JPG)
关山月 (画家) · see-source-page
Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%B3%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%88_(%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6)

## About Shanyue Guan

Shanyue Guan, more commonly ordered as Guan Shanyue in international authority records (1912–2000), was a Chinese painter associated with the Lingnan School. Chinese-language biographical sources identify him as a representative second-generation artist of that school and give his original name as Guan Zepei. His practice encompassed landscapes, figures, and flower-and-bird painting, with plum blossom imagery singled out as a particular specialty. These subjects place his work within the modern development of Chinese painting while retaining established pictorial genres. Collectors may encounter his name in several romanizations, including Kuan Shan-yueh, and in simplified or traditional Chinese as 关山月 or 關山月. Those variants matter when matching signatures, catalog records, exhibitions, and auction results. Appraisily groups these identity forms under one artist entity while leaving the attribution of any individual object to evidence specific to that work.

## Common works and media

Available sources describe Guan primarily as a painter. The most consistently documented subjects are landscapes, figures, and flower-and-bird compositions, with plum blossoms highlighted as a specialty. The source pack does not establish a reliable auction breakdown by ink, color, paper, silk, print, edition, sculpture, or ceramic category. Those details should therefore come from the individual work and its catalog record rather than being generalized from the artist identity.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction records associated with this artist appear numerous, but an artist-level count does not establish authenticity, scarcity, price direction, or value. The most defensible comparison points supported here are work type and subject: paintings of landscapes, figures, flower-and-bird themes, and especially plum blossoms. Name variants and Chinese-character forms are also important when reconciling catalog entries or inscriptions. Any appraisal should then rely on the individual object and closely comparable sale records before drawing conclusions about attribution or market value. Lot-level details such as medium, support, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and edition status were not available in the collected evidence and should not be assumed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Individual appraisal conclusions still depend on object-specific evidence and suitably matched comparables.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125643
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10893907
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%B3%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%88_(%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6)
- Wikipedia: https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%97%9C%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%88
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96608015/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92010365
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/442426
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shanyue-guan/