HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s announces the Hong Kong exhibition, between 1 – 6 April 2011, of a rare work that sheds fascinating light on a little-known British delegation to China in 1954 – just five years after the new People’s Republic of China was established – and well before the famous Nixon visit of 1972. The painting, Ming Tombs (estimated at £80,000-120,000/ HK$1-1.5 million*), by celebrated British artist Stanley Spencer – who came to be regarded in China as an English equivalent of Qi Baishi – forms part of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection. The auction will be held as a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 2011 at Sotheby’s London. This incomparable collection comprises outstanding works of the highest calibre by Modern British masters including the most important &