# William Marr artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-marr/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:06:03.378Z
Quality: low confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American

## About William Marr

William Marr is the English name associated by public authority records with Feima, a figure born in 1936 and described as an American writer and engineering researcher. Biographical sources also identify him as a poet, translator, and artist, reflecting a career that crosses literary, technical, and visual fields. Library authorities consistently connect Marr with the name Feima, while Chinese-language biographical material also records the names 非馬 and Ma Weiyi. The collected sources do not, however, document a recognized visual-art movement, characteristic medium, subject range, exhibition history, or established body of auctioned work. This matters because William Marr is not a uniquely identifying name. Collectors may encounter it in auction databases across several object categories, but a name match alone cannot demonstrate that a particular painting, print, sculpture, or decorative object was made by the writer and artist represented by these authority records. Signatures and documented provenance therefore require work-level review.

## Common works and media

The present auction index groups the William Marr name with paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. The collected biographical and authority sources do not confirm that these are characteristic media of William Marr or Feima. Each object should therefore be classified from its physical medium, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, and supporting documentation rather than from the artist-name match alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates the William Marr name with records spanning fine art, works on paper, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Those categories should be treated as provisional because the source pack does not securely connect every matched lot to the authority-record identity of William Marr or Feima. For an appraisal, compare only works that align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscription, edition status, provenance, and attribution. Exhibition history and catalogue references can strengthen identification when independently documented. Realized prices may also differ in their treatment of buyer premiums and fees, so apparently similar results are not always directly comparable.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when available. Here, authority identity is better supported than the connection between that identity and the full auction dataset, so record-level attribution should be independently checked.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8925104
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/68191535/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96026724
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16943763x
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000031959362
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marr
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%9E%E9%A6%AC
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/william-marr/