Fei Yifu

Public sources identify Fei Yifu as a Chinese oil painter, born in 1913 in Jiangsu province, China, and deceased in 1982; only the year of death is documented, not an exact date or place. According to a Google Arts and Culture museum record, he studied under Lv Sibai and Yan Wenliang at the Suzhou College of Fine Arts, graduating in 1936. He is recorded as having worked in the Department of Fine Arts of the Lizhi Community in Nanjing, transferring in 1951 to the Shanghai Xingzhi College of Arts and teaching from 1953 at the East China branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He later served as vice-president and associate professor in the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and as director of the Zhejiang branch of the China Artists Association and of the Hangzhou Science and Art Association. A 1941 oil-on-canvas work, Artist and His Wife, is catalogued under his name via Google Arts and Culture, though no holding museum is named in that record, and no museum collection could otherwise be confirmed for the artist or an estate as of this profile's compilation date.

Researchers should take care with identity: several individuals with similar or identical romanized names are far better documented and are unrelated to this artist, including the sociologist Fei Xiaotong, the computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, the oil painter Chen Yifei, and the ink painter Hsia Yi Fu (Xia Yi-fu, 1927 to 2016). None of these individuals should be treated as the same artist as Fei Yifu, and no source in the available research confirms that "Fei Yifu" is an alternate transliteration of any of them.

No verifiable, exact-wording critical commentary about Fei Yifu from named critics in major outlets was located in the available research. Several search results returned material about other artists with similar names, none of which can be responsibly attributed to Fei Yifu.

At least one auction-market aggregator, MutualArt, lists 67 works by Fei Yifu recorded at auction, indicating a modest but ongoing secondary-market presence. No specific top-lot title, price, currency, auction house, or sale date could be confirmed from the available research as of 2026-07-16, and no source describes a more recent record sale. Rather than estimate a figure, this profile leaves the auction-record fields unconfirmed until a specific, sourced lot can be verified.

Documentation for this artist is limited: exact birth and death dates and places are not confirmed, though his birth year, birthplace, art training, and several institutional teaching and leadership roles are documented through a single museum-partner source, Google Arts and Culture. No confirmed auction record, gallery or estate representation, museum holding, or catalogue raisonne could be located. Collectors considering a work attributed to Fei Yifu should independently verify the lot's title, price, and sale details with the auction house of record, and should confirm the artist's identity carefully given the number of similarly named individuals in art historical and market records.