# Xiaogang Zhang artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:15:49.732Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Xiaogang Zhang](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Zhang_Xiaogang_%282018%29_IV.jpg)
Jindřich Nosek (NoJin) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zhang_Xiaogang_(2018)_IV.jpg

## About Xiaogang Zhang

Zhang Xiaogang (born 1958) is a Chinese painter whose identity is consistently recorded by Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and VIAF. Collectors most often encounter his work through contemporary Chinese portraiture and the Bloodline series. The portraits frequently restrict color, arrange sitters in formal frontal poses, and emphasize unusually large, dark irises. Their staged appearance recalls Chinese family photographs from the 1950s and 1960s. The source pack also documents sculptures that translate related figures into three dimensions, extending imagery associated with the Bloodlines—Big Family portraits beyond painting. His name appears in several cataloguing forms, including Zhang Xiaogang and Chinese-script variants, so authority matching is important when connecting works with artist and auction records. Appraisily users are therefore likely to encounter his name alongside portraits, family groups, paintings, or sculptures connected to the better-known Bloodline context.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings and sculptures. The best-supported recurring imagery consists of stylized portraits and family groups, often presented with restrained or predominantly monochromatic color and formal, frontal poses. The Bloodline and Bloodlines—Big Family names are especially relevant when organizing related records. Sculptures described in the source pack adapt figures associated with the portrait imagery into three-dimensional form. The collected evidence does not establish prints, drawings, posters, ceramics, or editioned works as common categories, so those classifications should be assessed object by object rather than assumed.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish whether the object is a painting or sculpture and whether its documented title or history connects it to the Bloodline or Bloodlines—Big Family series. Comparable selection should prioritize the same medium and closely related portrait or family-group formats, then consider public sale dates and realized prices where suitable records exist. The collected source pack identifies an Appraisily auction-record presence but provides no accessible major-auction-house lot essays. A valuation should therefore remain tied to the specific object and genuinely comparable public records, rather than relying on the artist's general reputation or an unsupported assumption based on visual resemblance alone.

## 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. Source gaps and uncertain classifications are retained rather than converted into unsupported claims.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500330043
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2863499
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/85144209/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xiaogang
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/xiaogang-zhang/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zhang_Xiaogang_(2018)_IV.jpg