# Yan Pei Ming artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:50:28.253Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1960-12-01
- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting, Large-scale brush painting

## Portrait

![Yan Pei Ming](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Yan_Pei-Ming_2019.jpg/1280px-Yan_Pei-Ming_2019.jpg)
Nicolas Richoffer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yan_Pei-Ming_2019.jpg

## About Yan Pei Ming

Yan Pei Ming is a Chinese painter associated with France, where the collected biographical sources place him in Dijon. He is best known for forceful, large-scale portraits whose figures emerge through broad, rapid brushwork. Public descriptions particularly identify his portraits of Mao Zedong and note his recurring use of restricted black-and-white or red-and-white palettes. These features give many works an immediately recognizable visual structure: a dominant face or figure, emphatic tonal contrast, and an energetic painted surface. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with contemporary portrait painting and works that transform political or historically recognizable figures into monumental images. The available source pack supports his identity as a painter and his Chinese origin, but it does not establish a specific art movement from an institution-grade source. His exact birth year also remains unresolved because the collected authority and encyclopedia-style records conflict.

## Common works and media

Yan Pei Ming is principally documented in the collected sources as a painter of large-scale portraits. Works may feature broad, rapid brushwork and restricted black-and-white or red-and-white palettes. Portraits of Mao Zedong are specifically noted, alongside the broader category of figurative portrait painting. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other media as common auction offerings.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with the individual object rather than a general assumption about the artist's market. For Yan Pei Ming, useful comparisons should account for work type, dimensions, portrait subject, palette, execution, and date. Monumental portraits should not automatically be compared with smaller or materially different works, and a Mao subject may belong to a different comparison set from another sitter. Condition, provenance, inscriptions, and attribution still require object-specific verification. When public auction records are available, sale date, realized price, auction-house description, and similarity of the comparable lot provide more useful context than an isolated headline result. The collected sources do not support a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2599299
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500341422
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Pei-Ming
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Pei-Ming
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yan-pei-ming/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yan_Pei-Ming_2019.jpg