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...According to Chinese legend, it was brought into China by the Han dynasty envoy Zhang Qian some 2,000 years ago....
...The highlight is Zhang Xiaogang’s “Forever Lasting Love (Triptych)” (1988), estimated to fetch HK$25-30m (US$3.2-3.8m)....
...Sotheby’s Evelyn Lin confirmed that three of the top 10 lots were bought by American “organisations” and that Zhang Xiaogang’s “Forever Lasting Love”, which at more than $10m broke the record for a work...
...In 1644 the diarist John Evelyn described an opera he saw in Rome in which Gian Lorenzo Bernini had “painted the scenes, cut the Statues, invented the engines, composed the Musique, writ the Comedy, and...
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