Before Frieze set up its swinging shop in London’s Regent’s Park, before Art Basel transposed its staid Swiss self onto Miami Beach, art fairs were small, concentrated events that targeted a narrow class of specialists. None was more connoisseur-driven than the European Fine Art Fair, or Tefaf, the granddaddy of old masters events, held every
Henry Moore’s Stringed Figure (1939), in the booth of London’s Offer Waterman, at TEFAF Spring 2017. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS The storied TEFAF, whose acronym originally stood for The European Fine Art Fair, returns to New York and the Park Avenue Armory for its spring presentation of modern and contemporary art. And while the Old Masters and
Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore, Henri Matisse began to paint a series of odalisques — “a French term for a concubine in a harem,” explains London Royal Academy of Arts curator Ann Dumas. Henri Matisse’s 1912 oil painting “Goldfish and Sculpture.” (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Booth Shot of Ulrich Fielder featuring the Gerrit Rietveld Z Chairs. Courtesy of Ulrich Fielder Gallery There I was. In the booths of TEFAF—The European Fine Art Fair, for those uninitiated—the yearly event that lures the skinny-silk-suit-wearing, delicate cologne-scented collectors, the serious kind who neither want their names nor faces known by anyone other than
The fine art market continues to boom. It seems that every day, another auction record is set for “the highest price ever paid.” So what does that mean for the painting you bought to match your sofa a few years back? It may increase in worth, or it may be as salable as your kid’s
View of The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Holland. (Photo credit: S. Karabell) S. Karabell The Art Market Report, issued by The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) each year during its 10-day March event in Maastricht, Holland, is something of a bible for costs and trends in the world’s art market. So when, this
Artworks on sale at Maastricht’s TEFAF art fair The TEFAF in Maastricht is a pilgrimage site for wealthy art lovers from all over the world. Will this year’s fair be as successful as previous years? Image: TEFAF 2017 Once a year, the conference center in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands is transformed into
Analysis In a thriving international art business, there was a marked shift to private transactions. Artnet News March 4, 2017 Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen of Christie’s. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Global art sales went up, auction houses got squeezed, and Asian bidders took home an increasingly large piece of the art-market pie. That, at least, is the
Axel Vervoordt Gallery took over a historic room on the second floor of the Armory for TEFAF New York in 2016. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery. The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the Netherlands-based enterprise, has announced the exhibitor lineup for the first edition of its stateside spring fair. Having introduced the New York edition
There’s something for everyone as Cologne Fine Art, WIKAM, Art & Antique Hofburg and the Winter Art & Antiques Fair all open A diverse range of fairs catering to all tastes can be found in Europe this November. Running from 17–20 November, Cologne Fine Art presents 150 international exhibitors, offering everything from antiquities and Old