Xiao Xun

Public sources place Xiao Xun's dates at 1883 to 1944, though none of the sources reviewed for this profile supplies an exact birth or death date, or a documented place of death. No school, teacher, or degree has been documented for him in the sources reviewed, and no museum is confirmed to hold his work in a current collection. A joint work pairing him with Chen Banding (1876 to 1970), inscribed with a cyclical-year date corresponding to 1942, sold through Christie's; it is the most specific dated evidence found of his activity near the end of his life. Chinese-language auction records render the name in the traditional family-name-first order as 蕭愻.

The available sources offer no signed critical essays, attributed reviews, or documented scholarly framing of Xiao Xun's work beyond auction house cataloguing. No verbatim quotation from a named critic in a major outlet, and no confirmed exhibition history beyond saleroom listings, was located for this profile.

Xiao Xun's market is thin and runs almost entirely through Hong Kong saleroom listings rather than a tracked price index. Sotheby's Hong Kong offered a hanging scroll, Shan Wu Le Zhi (Reading in a Secluded Retreat), in its 2025 Inkspiration: Chinese Paintings Online sale; available sources disagree on whether HKD 14,000 represents a realized sale figure or whether the listing carried a presale estimate of HKD 12,000 to 50,000, so no final price can be confirmed for this lot. A separate 2017 Sotheby's lot in the Fine Chinese Paintings sale carried a higher estimate of HKD 70,000 to 90,000, but the realized price for that lot is also not published in the source consulted. Christie's has offered at least two Xiao Xun works, including a landscape hanging scroll and the 1942 joint work with Chen Banding, without a publicly disclosed hammer price for either. No source reviewed establishes a confirmed all-time auction record for the artist, and no single figure should be treated as one until a realized price is verified directly from a saleroom result.

Records for Xiao Xun are sparse enough that any single price, whether an estimate or a reported figure, should be treated as illustrative rather than as a market benchmark. There is no catalogue raisonne and no confirmed contemporary gallery or estate representation, so provenance and the cataloguing practices of the specific auction house handling a given work carry unusual weight for authentication. Collectors researching this artist should also search under the Chinese rendering of the name, 蕭愻, since that is how Chinese-language auction records typically list him.