# Yinmo Shen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yinmo-shen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:47:32.714Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1883-06-11
- Death date: 1971-06-01
- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Chinese calligraphy

## Portrait

![Yinmo Shen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8C%97%E5%B9%B3%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%BF%E6%B2%88%E5%B0%B9%E9%BB%98%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F_%28cropped%29.png)
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8C%97%E5%B9%B3%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%BF%E6%B2%88%E5%B0%B9%E9%BB%98%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F_(cropped).png

## About Yinmo Shen

Yinmo Shen is the Western-order form used on this page for Shen Yinmo (沈尹默), a Chinese calligrapher and poet who lived from 1883 to 1971. Public authority data and Chinese- and English-language reference pages agree on that core identity, while the Chinese reference supplies the exact dates 11 June 1883 and 1 June 1971. The same source describes him as an early experimental poet; this profile therefore treats poetry as part of his intellectual context but does not assign a formal visual-art movement. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with Chinese calligraphy. Romanization and name order matter: Yinmo Shen, Shen Yinmo, and Shen Yin-mo identify the same person, as does 沈尹默. The present source pack does not establish named series, recurring pictorial subjects, or a broader range of media, so the page should avoid extending his oeuvre beyond the supported calligraphy-and-poetry identity.

## Common works and media

Current public evidence supports Chinese calligraphy as the principal work type associated with Shen Yinmo, alongside poetry as a literary occupation. The pack does not identify specific scripts, formats, supports, named series, recurring subjects, print editions, paintings, sculpture, or ceramics. Incoming objects should therefore be described from their own physical and documentary evidence rather than assigned to an unsupported category or series merely because they carry a similar romanized name.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack includes an Appraisily auction-price page signal for Yinmo Shen, but its request was rate-limited and no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, or auction-house cataloguing were captured. Market interpretation should therefore remain conservative. The first appraisal question is correct entity matching and attribution, especially across the forms Yinmo Shen, Shen Yinmo, Shen Yin-mo, and 沈尹默. A work should also be classified by supported type; Chinese calligraphy is evidenced here, while paintings, prints, editions, and other categories are not. When public auction records are available, comparisons should be restricted to genuinely comparable calligraphic works and tied to recorded attribution, sale date, realized price, and lot context rather than used as a general price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, identity evidence is usable, but the collected pack did not expose lot-level market data.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q558673
- Wikipedia: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%88%E5%B0%B9%E9%BB%98
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yinmo
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/57925588/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80158385
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yinmo-shen/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8C%97%E5%B9%B3%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%BF%E6%B2%88%E5%B0%B9%E9%BB%98%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F_(cropped).png