Chinese Buyers Offered Western Masterpieces

With Picassos and Renoirs and famous paintings taking a place of pride in a hotel room in Beijing, China's super-rich are now turning to take Europe's art to themselves. The exhibition, running until Sunday, ranks among the more distinguished displays of Western art seen in the Chinese capital, but is actually a private sale by international auctioneers Sotheby's. It also includes works by Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec and Delacroix, among others. Except ...