# Shou-Kwan Lui artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/shou-kwan-lui/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:26:12.052Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Hong Kong New Ink Movement
- Common media: Ink painting, Works on paper

## About Shou-Kwan Lui

Lui Shou-Kwan (1919–1975), presented on this page under the indexed name Shou-Kwan Lui, was a Chinese painter closely associated with Hong Kong ink painting. Authority records connect the artist to established identifiers maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and other library systems. Published summaries describe him as a prominent twentieth-century ink painter and a founder of the Hong Kong New Ink Movement. His work is therefore commonly considered in relation to both Chinese ink traditions and Hong Kong's modern artistic culture. Collectors may encounter his name in several forms, including Lui Shou-Kwan, Lü Shou-k'un, and the Chinese name 呂壽琨. Appraisily's matched public-auction records show his work appearing in fine-art, painting, and works-on-paper contexts. Because romanization, cataloguing conventions, and attribution language can vary between sources, careful identity matching is essential when comparing individual works, exhibition references, and auction results.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies ink paintings and works on paper as the clearest work types associated with Lui Shou-Kwan. Appraisily's auction taxonomy also places matched records in fine-art and painting contexts and accounts for prints or editions when catalogued. One recent indexed lot is titled Zen painting, although a single auction title is not enough to establish a formal series. For appraisal, document the exact medium, support, dimensions, date, condition, inscriptions, seals, provenance, and attribution language rather than assuming that every work belongs to the same category or period.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Lui Shou-Kwan should begin with public auction records for genuinely comparable objects. Relevant comparisons should align as closely as possible on medium, support, dimensions, date, subject, condition, inscriptions or seals, provenance, and attribution wording. Exhibition history and catalogue references may provide additional context. Appraisily's current artist index contains matched records dated from 2008 through 2025, but its public taxonomy is broad and not every record includes a usable realized price. Reported totals may also differ in their treatment of fees. These limitations make individual lot review more reliable than applying an artist-wide median or price range without qualification.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43137234
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125616
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/77710328/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lui_Shou-Kwan
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%91%82%E5%A3%BD%E7%90%A8
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shou-kwan-lui/