HONG KONG POLICE SEARCH LANDFILL FOR $3.7 MN PAINTING

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police on Wednesday searched for a valuable painting mistakenly dumped in a landfill after it sold for $3.7 million at auction, reports said. “Snowy Mountain” by Chinese artist Cui Ruzhuo, which was a main feature of the spring auction by Beijing-based Poly Culture this week, was dumped by cleaners at the luxury hotel hosting the sale, the South China Morning Post said. Grand Hyatt hotel cleaners were suspected of dumping the painting, which sold on Monday for more than $3.71 million, along with rubbish that was taken to a landfill, the paper said. AFP