Li Qiujun

Li Qiujun was born in 1899 in Zhenhai, a district of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, China. She became active in Shanghai's traditional ink painting circles from the late 1920s onward, and is described in market and institutional sources as a member of the China Artists Association and as a painter associated with the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. Auction house and exhibition sources report that she studied first under Wu Shu, then under Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian), though no school, degree, or exact years of study could be confirmed.

She is deceased. Reference sources disagree on the year of her death: MutualArt and AskART give 1971, while an exhibition text from the China Cultural Center in Brussels gives 1973. No source available to this profile provides an exact death date or a place of death, and Masterworks has not been able to resolve the discrepancy between 1971 and 1973 with confidence. In auction house and market listings her name also appears alongside other Chinese ink painters of the same period, including Li Zuhan; the available sources describe a shared auction category rather than a documented working collaboration.

No essays, reviews, or named-critic commentary in major art publications could be located for Li Qiujun in the sources available to this profile. Her documented public presence is limited to brief biographical notes from auction platforms and a short institutional exhibition text, rather than sustained critical writing, so no attributable quotation is included here.

Li Qiujun's work circulates in the Chinese ink painting secondary market, primarily as works on paper and hanging scrolls, but public price summaries for her are inconsistent across platforms. One MutualArt profile page reports realized prices up to USD 12,470 for works on paper, while a separate MutualArt-indexed listing and related aggregator summaries cite ceilings as high as USD 392,073 for works on paper and USD 80,557 for paintings. Masterworks was unable to reconcile these figures to a single verified top lot with a confirmed work title, currency, auction house, and sale date, so no all-time auction record is reported on this profile. Collectors should treat any single price figure quoted by a market aggregator for this artist with caution until it is checked against the originating auction house's own catalogue record.

There is no catalogue raisonne, no confirmed current gallery or estate representation, and no specific museum collection holding her work documented in accessible sources, and reference sources disagree on even her year of death. Reported auction price ceilings vary by a wide margin across market databases without a reconciled top lot. Given these gaps, collectors considering a work attributed to Li Qiujun should independently verify the specific lot's sale history, attribution, and provenance directly with the auction house of record rather than relying on aggregator summaries, and should treat attribution in this market segment, Republican-era Shanghai ink painting, with the added scrutiny it generally requires.