As usual some of the best works were snapped up instantly. By Saturday morning Johnny van Haeften, a London dealer, had sold “An Italianate Landscape With Travelers on a Path” (around 1650), by the Dutch Baroque painter Jan Both, for $5.4 million. The large canvas (about 55 by 65 inches) depicts a rocky landscape bathed in a soft golden light.
The New York gallery French & Company also made a big sale. An anonymous European collector bought for “Harbor of Trieste,” a jewel-like landscape painted by Egon Schiele in 1907, when he was just 17. The asking price had been $3 million.
Many treasures are still waiting for homes. A pair of grand paintings by the 18th-century Roman artist Giovanni Paolo Panini can be found on one wall at Dickinson, the London gallery. Both are rich Baroque scenes, one depicting a concert, the other a ball in the Farnese Palace in Rome. The gallery is asking $20 million for the pair.
Also on view are several interesting portraits of women. At Michael Werner Galleries, dealers in Paris, New York and Cologne, Germany, there is a haunting painting of Greta Garbo as Mata Hari painted by Francis Picabia in 1937. The image, priced at $750,000, is from a photograph taken by Clarence Sinclair Bull, the head of the MGM stills department, who took more than 4,000 pictures of Garbo.
The subject of another portrait may be familiar only to auctiongoers. She is Valentine Clapisson, the Parisian socialite, captured in an 1882 Renoir painting, “In the Roses (Madame Léon Clapisson).” Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner, bought the work at Sotheby’s in 2003 for $23.5 million. He recently asked Acquavella Galleries of New York to sell it for him, and the painting occupies the center of Acquavella’s booth, with an asking price of $45 million.
A 1964 Picasso sculpture of Jacqueline Roque, his second wife, in cut, painted and folded sheet iron was on view at Thomas Gibson Fine Art, the London gallery. While Hugh Gibson, the director, declined to say how much he was asking, other dealers said the price was $7.2 million. A newcomer to Maastricht, Mr. Gibson said he had come to the fair this year “to widen our European client base.”
