Ni Yide

According to Chinese New Art, Ni Yide was born in 1901 in Hangzhou, China; this birthplace detail comes from a single source and has not been independently corroborated. He graduated in 1922 from the Shanghai Art School's Western Painting Department, one of the earliest training grounds for Western-style art in China, and afterward continued his studies in Tokyo under the painter Fujishima Takeji; the exact year of that Tokyo period is not documented in accessible sources.

In the early 1930s, Ni Yide helped found the Storm Society (Juelan She) alongside Pang Xunqin and other Shanghai-based modernists, a group credited with advancing Western-style painting in China during a formative period for the country's modern art scene. He went on to a long academic career, teaching as a professor at the National Academy of Art and later serving as Vice-President of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, where he set up a workshop in 1961. A separate account of the painter Jin Yide notes that Jin served as Ni Yide's teaching assistant at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1962 and 1963, which corroborates his position there.

Ni Yide died in 1970. Chinese New Art states that he died during the Cultural Revolution, a period that ran from 1966 to 1976 in China; this is the only source available for that circumstance, and no exact death date or place has been located in accessible records.

English-language sources do not preserve a signed, quotable critical assessment of Ni Yide's work that can be reproduced verbatim. His standing rests instead on his documented role as a co-founder of the Storm Society, whom one scholarly account credits as the sole author of the Society's manifesto, and on his long teaching tenure at the National Academy of Art and the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, cited as evidence of his lasting influence on later generations of Chinese painters.

No public auction record for Ni Yide could be confirmed as of 2026-07-16. Standard art market references and major auction house archives did not surface a work title, price, currency, house, or sale date attributable to him with confidence, and no evidence of current gallery or estate representation was found either. His market should be treated as effectively undocumented in public sources rather than simply small; any figure circulating for this artist should be verified directly against an auction house record before being relied upon.

Ni Yide's importance to Chinese modernism is well established, but the practical market information collectors typically rely on, an auction record, current representation, museum holdings, and a catalogue raisonne, could not be confirmed in public sources as of 2026-07-16. There is no evidence of an existing catalogue raisonne or authentication program for his work. Anyone considering a work attributed to Ni Yide should treat provenance research and direct verification with an auction house or qualified specialist as essential, rather than relying on any published price history, since none could be located.