A Dalliance With Dali

Collectors from the region seem to have had their fill of contemporary Chinese art and moved on to the best from the West. Chitralekha Basu reports from Hong Kong.

The Le Corbusiers, Renoirs and Picassos are on their way back to London, having touched base with Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong.

Bringing the highlights of a major art auction to be held in New York or London to China for a preview is not new - Christie's held its Hong Kong show on Jan 17, while the Sotheby's preview ran from Feb 14 to 16 - but the volume and value of this eastbound traffic gets bigger by the year.