# Xueshi Bai artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/xueshi-bai/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:45:01.381Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 2011-04-22
- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting

## About Xueshi Bai

Xueshi Bai (1915–2011), also recorded in Chinese as 白雪石, was a Chinese painter associated with Beijing. Authority records normalize his name as Bai, Xueshi and identify him as a Chinese landscapist. The Chinese-language biographical record gives his original name as 白增锐 and the studio name 何须斋, and records his death on 22 April 2011. These identifiers matter because English-language auction and library records may invert the family and given names, while Chinese records use 白雪石. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with landscape painting rather than a documented Western movement or formally named series. The supplied public evidence is strongest on identity, dates, and landscape specialization; it is thinner on training, institutional affiliations, named bodies of work, techniques, and exhibition history. Accordingly, this profile avoids assigning unsupported movements or media beyond painting and landscape subjects.

## Common works and media

Public authority records identify Bai Xueshi as a painter and Chinese landscapist, so the best-supported common-work description is landscape painting. The collected evidence does not establish particular supports, techniques, named series, editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters. Those classifications should be added only after an individual work or reliable catalogue record supplies the necessary details.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is catalogued under the painter Bai Xueshi (白雪石), not another person with a similar romanized name. VIAF and Getty authority links are useful for identity matching, while Appraisily’s artist page indicates an auction-record context but the collected source excerpt does not expose individual lots, sale dates, realized prices, mediums, dimensions, condition, provenance, or edition information. Those object-level facts must be checked in the underlying record before selecting comparables. Because the source pack supports landscape painting as his principal category, comparisons should be limited to securely attributed works with genuinely similar object characteristics. No price direction or market trend can be responsibly inferred from this source pack alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/33426518/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500340182
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E9%9B%AA%E7%9F%B3
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16906323
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/xueshi-bai/