PARIS.- The next Sotheby’s sales of Contemporary Art in Paris will welcome connoisseurs and collectors to the Galerie Charpentier for two auction sessions, on 7 December (Evening Sale) and 8 December 2011 (Day Sale). Some of the 141 works to be offered for auction are fresh to the market and come from prestigious collections – notably the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jean Dubuffet’s Tête d’Homme (Theatre Mask XX, est. €70,000-90,000 / $96,500-125,000) and Jean-Michel Atlan’s Agrigente (est. €120,000-180,000 / $166,000-249,000), to be offered at the evening session; and Arman’s Don’t Touch (est. €30,000-40,000 / $41,400-55,500) and three small, unique bronzes by Germaine Richier, included in the Day Sale. Among the session’s star lots is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s MP, a monumental self-portrait-like figure painted in 1984 and kept in the same collection since 1985 (est. €700,000-900,000 /