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Also see Picasso at Auction Christie’s is pleased has announced Pablo Picasso’s   Buste d’homme dans un cadre   from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, as a leading highlight of the 20 th   and 21 st   Century Art Evening Sale to take place on 26 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (estimate on request; in the region of HK$150 million/ US$19 million). Offered fresh to the market and extraordinary among Picasso’s late works for its orderly composition, graceful, decisive lines, and intensity of expression, this seminal canvas is one of the finest and most striking of the artist’s paintings from the last decade of his life. Buste d’homme dans un cadre  is an epic representation of Picasso’s iconic musketeer motif: the pan-European, 17 th  Century swashbuckling archetype of masculinity, deriving its inspiration from celebrated golden age master painters such as Rembrandt and Velázquez, and literary giants Shakespeare and Dumas. In this painting, the sitter bears the gaze