Shanghai Daily news

The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall will host an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's art works from this Friday until March 2.
All the exhibits, which will arrive in town tomorrow, come from the French-based Picasso Foundation.
As part of the Year of France in China, the exhibition will present 265 plates, prints and watercolor paintings by the famous cubist painter.
Divided into eight series, the art works represent the Picasso's different artistic periods from 1920 to 1968, featuring various subjects including animals, portraits, poems and literary classics.
Among them, "The Three-cornered Hat" series of watercolor paintings is on display for the first time since it was created about 84 years ago.
According to the staff of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, this is the largest exhibition of Picasso's works ever held in Asia.
A talented and legendary artists, Picasso (1881-1973) is generally regarded as the greatest artist of the last century.
He was unique as a pioneer of forms, an innovator of styles and techniques, a master of modern art and one of the most prolific artists in history, creating more than 60,000 works.
Last year in New York, one of his paintings, featuring a young boy holding a pipe, sold at an auction for US$106.42 million.