Sotheby's presents Beijing Spring Sale and Selling Exhibition 2014 from May 30 to June 1

KOLKATA: Following the Sotheby’s Beijing Art Week in 2013, Sotheby’s is presenting Sotheby’s Beijing Spring Sale and Selling Exhibition 2014, 30 May to 1 June, at the China World Summit Wing, Beijing.

This three-day series will showcase the varying facets of modern and contemporary Chinese and Western arts to collectors and art lovers in China. Scheduled events include an auction of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art; a selling exhibition of Masters on Paper – From Picasso to Sanyu; an exhibition from the private Hui Tong Collection of Chinese Realist Paintings; and a series of educational programmes featuring leading scholars from China and Sotheby’s specialists.

The Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art sale on 1 June will offer more than 50 outstanding works of exceptional quality, estimated in excess of RMB 85 million/US$13.7 million in total. The sale will be led by 20th Century Chinese master Zao Wou-Ki’s Sous bois dans la nuit, a masterpiece from the artist’s Oracle Bone Period. An impressive group of Contemporary Chinese works and Contemporary ink paintings by celebrated artists will complement the modern offerings.