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Sotheby’s previews highlights from impressionist & modern and contemporary art sales in Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s is exhibiting selected highlights of the London Sale Series of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong from 25 to 27 November (Friday to Sunday) 2011. The exhibition offers an early viewing of important highlights from the major London sales of Impressionist & Modern Art which take place on 8 and 9 February 2012, and the Contemporary Art auctions on 15 and 16 February 2012. Prominent works by Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Delvaux, Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter, among others, are featured. Following Sotheby’s recent sale of Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) for the remarkable sum of US$40.4 / HK$315 million (est. in excess of US$25 / HK$195 million) in the November Impressionist & Modern Art Evening