Han Jing/Shanghai Daily news

The 2008 Picasso China Tour will open at Shanghai Exhibition Center on July 5 and will run until August 22, Eastday.com reported today.

The exhibition will feature more than 100 pieces of Picasso’s oil paintings, sketches and sculptures. A dozen pieces kept by Picasso’s family will also make their world debut at the exhibition, the report has said.

The exhibition will cover masterpieces from Picasso’s various periods and mainly focus on the cubism portraits and self-portraits of Picasso’s paintings. Oil paintings may account for forty percent the exhibit.

Chinese Culture Promotion Society, the organizing committee of the Shanghai Art Fair, a Denmark-based exhibition giant and Shanghai Media Group will jointly operate the exhibition under the approval of the Ministry of Culture.

The organizer will invite scholars from home and abroad to give seminars on the art of Picasso and forums on the exchange between oriental and western art during the forty-seven-day exhibition.