A portrait of disgraced official Fan Jihong (front), former Pengshan County Magistrate, is placed on the floor to dry as a painter works on portraits for Chinese artist and film-maker Zhang Bingjian's "Hall of Fame" project in a studio in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, April 27, 2011. The stark, monochromatic portraits rendered in the reddish-pink hue of China's 100 yuan banknotes, painted by a team of artists in Shenzhen's Dafen village -- known for its mass-produced knock-offs of iconic Western paintings -- are the brainchild of outspoken Zhang. Picture taken on April 27, 2011. To match Reuters Life! CHINA-ART/CORRUPTION REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) 

The canvas of Spanish artist Picasso's "La femme qui pleure" (The crying woman) is presented for auction in Paris October 27. A host of little-known Picasso canvases, drawings and trinkets hidden away for half a century by one of his lovers, Dora Maar, are to be auctioned during six days over two weeks. The crying woman fetched a price of 37 million French francs (6.642.729 U.S. dollars).

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