Xiong Songquan

Available sources place Xiong Songquan's life dates at 1884 to 1961, with only the years, not exact days or months, confirmed by an auction market profile (MutualArt) and independently corroborated by a Christie's lot listing that cites the same span. A Chinese auction house's artist note describes him as a modern painter skilled in landscape, flower-and-bird, and portrait painting, and notes that he was particularly known for animal painting and was able to paint with his left hand. No school, teacher, or formal training history is documented in the sources reviewed, and his place of birth is not confirmed.

One documented lot connects Xiong Songquan to a major international auction house: a Christie's listing pairs him with the artist Chen Jingtang, though the publicly available page does not specify a title, medium, hammer price, or exact sale date for the work. No further exhibition history, awards, or gallery affiliation could be confirmed for Xiong Songquan in the sources available. He is not the same person as other, better documented artists surnamed Xiong, including Xiong Bingming and Xiong Liang, who worked in different periods and mediums.

No named critic writing in a major art publication could be located discussing Xiong Songquan specifically, and no verbatim quotations meeting a sourcing standard could be identified. What limited characterization exists comes from a brief auction-house biographical note describing his range across landscape, flower-and-bird, and portrait subjects and his particular reputation for animal painting, rather than from independent critical assessment.

Xiong Songquan has a measurable but thinly documented auction presence. MutualArt records 85 works attributed to him as having appeared at auction, indicating a real, if modest, secondary market rather than a single isolated sale. The one specific lot identified in research, a Christie's listing pairing him with Chen Jingtang, confirms at least one major international house has handled his work, but no title, medium, price, currency, or exact sale date for that lot, or for any other lot, could be confirmed in the sources reviewed. No all-time auction record for the artist could be established, and no current gallery representation, estate, or museum collection holding could be confirmed.

The documentary record on Xiong Songquan is sparse relative to most artists in this format: exact birth and death dates, training, exhibition history, and any record auction price are not confirmed in the sources reviewed. There is no catalogue raisonne and no formal authentication body; buyers should rely on the cataloguing and expertise of the specific auction house handling any given lot, and should independently verify attribution before transacting. Given the common surname, collectors should also confirm they are looking at the 1884 to 1961 painter documented here and not a different artist named Xiong active in a different period or medium.