# Yan BoLong artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yan-bolong/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:30:38.250Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## About Yan BoLong

Yan BoLong (1898–1954) was a Chinese painter whose identity is recorded in Wikidata, VIAF, and the Library of Congress authority system. Authority records also connect him with the names Yan Yunlin, 颜伯龙, and Changbaibuyi, which can help collectors distinguish relevant catalogues and auction listings from similarly named artists. A bibliographic entry associated with his authority record highlights birds, bamboo, and flowers, subjects connected with Chinese bird-and-flower painting. The available source pack does not document a specific movement, school, training history, or formal career period, so those associations should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Yan BoLong in painting and works-on-paper categories, sometimes under variant transliterations or Chinese characters. Careful name matching is therefore important when comparing records. His public auction history provides evidence of an established secondary-market presence, but individual objects still require examination of medium, inscriptions, condition, provenance, date, and attribution.

## Common works and media

Auction and authority data most clearly support paintings and works on paper associated with birds, bamboo, and flowers. Variant names and Chinese-character signatures may appear in cataloguing. The public market page also uses broader categories such as prints, editions, sculpture, mixed media, and decorative art, but those aggregated classifications should be verified against each lot and should not, by themselves, be treated as evidence that Yan BoLong personally worked in every listed medium.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market index reports auction results for Yan BoLong across a 2004–2026 sale-date range, including priced and unpriced records. Results span a wide range, so a headline median or overall price range should not be used as a stand-alone valuation. Strong comparisons match the object's medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, inscriptions, attribution status, and provenance as closely as possible. Restoration, uncertain authorship, incomplete cataloguing, and differences in whether reported prices include buyer's premium can reduce comparability. Auction evidence is most useful when several recent, genuinely similar lots can be reviewed together; private transactions and sales absent from the indexed feed remain outside that evidence base.

## 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 those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, reporting differences, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156921
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/31747177/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006039818
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yan-bolong/