February 27, 2018 Bianca Ruthven, Collections Management Associate, Department of European Paintings View of a past installation in gallery 624 in the Department of European Paintings With change comes opportunity, and while the motivation for the European Paintings Skylights Project is practical—to make necessary building repairs—it will also result in long-term benefits for both our
The European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf) has discontinued its widely read annual art market study, reports the Financial Times, meaning that the first word on the size of the market is likely to go to its competitor’s analysis, the Art Basel Market Report, which was released for the first time last year. Published since 2000,
View of gallery 634 in the Department of European Paintings «One of my favorite documents (yes, it is possible to have favorite historical documents!) was only discovered in Rome’s dusty state archives five years ago. It notes how the brilliant young Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera, having found lodgings in which he could paint, received
For lovers of antiquities and classic European art, the second installment of Tefaf New York Fall last week offered Old Masters, glittering armor and ancient Egyptian works of art, bringing a little bit of Europe to the Park Avenue Armory in mid-autumn. With dozens of art fairs popping up across the U.S. and the globe,
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), one of the world’s largest art fairs, has come to its second year in New York. Established in 1988, TEFAF is an annual art, antiques and design fair organized by the European Fine Art Foundation in Maastricht, Netherlands. With exhibitors from the world’s leading galleries from 20 countries, TEFAF
01 Nov, 2017 | Wed | 19:06 The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), one of the world’s largest art fairs, has come to its second year in New York. Established in 1988, TEFAF is an annual art, antiques and design fair organized by the European Fine Art Foundation in Maastricht, Netherlands. With exhibitors from the
The European Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory is an elegant event during which wealthy collectors browse through booths of stunning art pieces, from ancient sculptures to works by early 20th-century masters. So it raised a few eyebrows on Friday afternoon when two prosecutors and three police officers marched into the armory at
Photo: Benjamin Lozovsky & Carl Timpone/BFA.com Amy Astley and Mitch Owens The design world, and seemingly most of the Upper East Side, turned out for the opening of the New York edition of The European Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory last night. Spread between three floors were flowers flown in from the
The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF and held every March in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht, had a reputation for stability: the same dealers year after year, bringing their choicest paintings, furniture, and diamond brooches to a well-heeled collector base. But a roiling art market, and increasingly eclectic tastes, led the Dutch
This article is more than 6 years old. TEFAF New York 2017. ©2017 Shannon Heylin. The art market’s orientation to, if not obsession with, “the contemporary” is understandable from a supply and demand perspective. A majority of A-plus historic works is in museums, private collections or the inventories of modern and contemporary dealers. When masterworks