March 9, 2025

European Fine art

European Fine art

Stanić’s opus is inextricably linked with the greatest reaches of European fine art

From the opening of the exhibition, Photo: twitter.com/JakovMilatovic The impressive creative oeuvre of the painter Vojislav Voj Stanić represents the permanent value of Montenegrin culture and its unbreakable bond with the greatest reaches of European fine art, said the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović. A large retrospective exhibition of Stanić’s works was opened last night

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Art fair reports ‘record’ prices for Van Gogh and Picasso

Staff members hang a rare Vincent van Gogh painting, “Tete de paysanne a la coiffe blanche”, painted circa 1884, at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair. (AFP) The Hague: Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Van Gogh and works by Picasso and Kees van Dongen,

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Dutch Art Fair Reports ‘Record’ Prices For Van Gogh, Picasso

Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Van Gogh and works by Picasso and Kees van Dongen, fetched “record prices”. Although a total figure of sale for some of the world’s most sought-after artworks could not be given, organisers of The European Fine Art Fair

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European Fine art

Dutch art fair reports ‘record’ prices for Van Gogh, Picasso works

Europe’s largest art fair closed its doors on Friday with organisers saying that sales, including a rare Vincent van Gogh and works by Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen, fetched “record prices”. Although a total figure of sale for some of the world’s most sought-after artworks could not be given, organisers of The European Fine

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European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht: Zenith of Art Fairs, Pharaoh’s Red Sea Folly, by Titian, Stars

In Maastricht, hopes are high that a rare cast of Rodin’s Thinker means thinking’s back in style. T he European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht is the zenith of art fairs in quality, prestige, and cachet. Starting on March 7 and continuing this week, 270 high-end dealers gathered to offer their best to a

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TEFAF opens its new edition with an art and antique fair

Robust bunches of Ten Kate-designed flowers lushly suspended from the ceiling, oysters brimming with savory aphrodisiac in each shuck, dramatic gazes of Renaissance martyrs ogling at collectors from hundreds of years-old canvases… Many ornate signs hinted at the return of art, design and antiques fair TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) to its birth city

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Maastricht is where museums go on shopping sprees

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. THE PAINTINGS are spotlighted, so you can see every brushstroke and crack. Next to each work is a placard, outlining its history and to whom it once belonged. Here is an elaborately framed painting, probably

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Works Sold Every Few Minutes – Visitors Moved to Tears

Maastricht lights up as a global center for art lovers during Europe’s largest annual fair. This year, 20 percent more visitors came in the first few days, with the 4.6 million euro sale of  Van Gogh’s «Tête de Paysanne à la Coiffe Blanche» a key highlight. The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) closed its doors

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TEFAF Maastricht 37 A Few Takeaways

Once a year, The European Fine Art Fair turns Maastricht, a small Dutch university town on the border of Belgium, into an art market cyclotron where highly enriched particles of global wealth are discharged into a powerful magnetic field of refined and concentrated world culture in hopes of achieving fusion. Perhaps a sign of straitened

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6 Fascinating Finds from TEFAF Maastricht 2024

Kunstkammer Geord Laue. Photo: Courtesy of TEFAF For two weeks every March, the medieval Dutch city of Maastricht becomes the center of the art world as droves of the globe’s most prominent art collectors make the annual pilgrimage to The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). At a tiny airport on the border of Germany and

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