Christie's will hold its second auction in Shanghai on April 26, offering a range of Asian and Western art led by one of Pablo Picasso's Tete de femme paintings.
 Christie's offers mid-level pieces from top artists in the sale, testing the Chinese market |
The sale follows Christie's inaugural auction on the Chinese mainland in September 2013, which marked the first sale of a Picasso in the country at $1.9m.
With the auction house still testing the Chinese market for Western works of art, Tete de femme is a mid-level Picasso piece estimated at a modest $1.5m-2.5m.
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Also offered among impressionist and modern art is Marc Chagall's L'offrande au pientre, an exemplary example of his work from 1983, which is expected to sell for $1.2m-1.8m.
Post-war and contemporary art is led by Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm and Madonna by Andy Warhol, which was inspired by the prints of The Scream artist Edvard Munch. Created in 1984, it will sell for $1.6m-2.5m.
Following is a Roy Lichtenstein canvas titled Apple and Grapefruit at $650,000-950,000, while Damien Hirst's spot painting Calcium Hydride is valued at $300,000-500,000.
 Alongside Zeng Fanzhi, Zao Wou-ki is one of the top selling Asian contemporary artists |
The sale also features a range of contemporary Asian works, led by the highly esteemed Zao Wou-ki's abstract work 31.08.2001-09.09.2002 at $1.3m-2m.
Top-selling artist Zeng Fanzhi, whose The Last Supper set a record for Asian contemporary art in 2013, features with Untitled 07-5 - estimated at $685,000-1m.
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