Following its preview in Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei, the painting Potted Prunus by Chinese French artist Sanyu will be auctioned at Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong on Nov 30.

This will be the auction debut for the work, which was the only prunus painting Sanyu (1901-1966) created in the 1940s.

With pre-sales estimated to be between $153 million to $216 million, Christie's upcoming 2022 autumn 20th and 21st century art sale in Hong Kong will feature iconic artists from China and abroad such as Zao Wou-ki, Yoshitomo Nara and Yayoi Kusama, and contemporary artists such as Nicolas Party and Avery Singer in five events.

The events are the 20th and 21st Century Art Evening Sale, the Post Millennium Evening Sale, Marc Chagall, Colour of Life: Works Formerly from the Artist's Estate (Part II), the 20th Century Art Day Sale and the 21st Century Art Day Sale.

A dinosaur skeleton, Shen the T.rex, will be among the offerings. It will be the first specimen of its kind to be auctioned in Asia.

"The five art auctions are a celebration of both world-renowned and up-and-rising artists, comprising a superb breadth of artworks created from the early 1900s to the present," said Evelyn Lin, deputy chairman and co-head of the 20th and 21st Century Art Department, Christie's Asia Pacific.