# Yu Sanyu artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yu-sanyu/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:21:45.899Z
Quality: low confidence, insufficient sources

## Artist identity



## About Yu Sanyu

Yu Sanyu is the name under which Appraisily currently groups a substantial body of public auction records. The collected identity evidence is not sufficient, however, to connect that market grouping confidently to a documented artist biography. A Wikidata search returned Yu Sanyue, a differently named person, so that record should not be used to supply life dates, nationality, occupations, or artistic affiliations for this page. Until a museum, library authority, catalogue raisonné, artist estate, or major auction-house biography confirms the identity, collectors should read this page primarily as a market-record index rather than a definitive biographical profile. Movements, career periods, characteristic subjects, and preferred media have therefore been left unassigned instead of being inferred from auction-name matching.

## Common works and media

The current auction index groups matched results into fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These broad categories describe the organization of the collected market records; they should not yet be presented as a verified account of Yu Sanyu's oeuvre. Each object should be checked individually for medium, authorship, signature or inscription, edition status, date, provenance, and supporting catalogue or exhibition references.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's current index reports 342 matched auction records, of which 275 contain pricing, across an observed 2005–2026 sale-date range. These records provide potential comparison points, but the unresolved artist identity makes record-level verification especially important. Relevant appraisal factors include medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, attribution confidence, signatures or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and similarity to recent public sales. Reported auction totals may not be directly comparable when buyer premiums, fees, currencies, or reporting methods differ. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and revised attributions may also fall outside the available data. No price prediction should be made without confirming both the artist identity and the comparability of the selected lots.

## 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. Here, the market dataset is more developed than the identity evidence, so biographical and attribution claims require further authoritative confirmation.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yu-sanyu/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65831902
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yu-sanyu/