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
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
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
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
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
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
Maastricht — 11 March 2024: TEFAF’s exhibitor community unveiled an impressive array of artworks as the celebrated Maastricht fair commenced its proceedings on Thursday, 7 March. Maintaining its venerated status as the premier fair for museum-quality works of art, TEFAF treated collectors to two previews, attracting thousands eager to explore and acquire 7,000 years of
Boasting 7,000 years of art history and requiring almost as many steps to traverse its aisles, The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht is far from downsizing. But with the fair’s 37th edition (until 14 March) shortened by three days compared with its predecessors, and featuring a new Focus section enabling galleries to delve
This spring, the international art scene is set alight with excitement and anticipation for TEFAF Maastricht! The New York Edition takes place in May, and now it’s time for the flagship event in Maastricht. Get tickets to see art from all over the world! TEFAF Maastricht TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) is widely recognised as
The difficulty of going to an art fair, as anyone who has attended more than one can tell you, is holding on to the artworks that grab you. This is especially true for contemporary art fairs where, more often than not, market trends influence the work that art dealers bring. If figuration or assemblage is