TEFAF Maastricht is widely regarded as the world’s premier fair for fine art, antiques and design. Featuring over 275 prestigious dealers from 20 countries, TEFAF Maastricht is a showcase for the finest art works currently on the market, hosted at the MECC in the setting of extra elegance, bringing together art connoisseurs and giving curious visitors the opportunity to admire and even purchase the impressive pieces on display.
Alongside the traditional areas of Old Master paintings, antiques and classical antiquities that cover approximately half of the fair, you can also find modern and contemporary art, photography, jewellery, 20th century design and works on paper.
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Rosemont Art Advisory will attend the inauguration of TEFAF and has hand picked for our readers few treasures to be snapped at the fair.
For its eleventh year at TEFAF Maastricht, Hammer Galleries will present Van Gogh in Paris. The centerpiece of this exhibition will be an important 1886 Paris park scene by celebrated Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh entitled The Bois de Boulogne with People Walking. Van Gogh’s trip to Paris and his subsequent meeting of the Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist artists was the pivotal turning point in his career.
The New York dealership Jason Jacques Gallery is renowned for its distinctive mix of turn of the century, 20th century and Contemporary artists’ ceramics which it will be presenting at TEFAF Maastricht.
But the gallery is ringing the changes by showing a selection of non-ceramic pieces, notably a collection of furniture by the Norwegian designer Lars Kinsarvik priced in the region of $50,000-100,000. They will include this carved and painted wooden armchair dating from 1900 featuring Kinsarvik’s characteristic use of Nordic decorative motifs.
London art dealer Dickinson Gallery will offer a painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) which was rediscovered in 1968 in a Hampstead antiques shop.
Paysanne devant une Chaumière (Peasant Woman in front of a Farmhouse), a 2ft 1in x 3ft 8in (63cm x 1.12m) signed oil on canvas, was painted in the Brabant region of The Netherlands in July 1885. It is believed to have been one of the works van Gogh sent to his supplier of frames and colours, Wilhelmus Leurs in The Hague, in hope of settling his mounting debts. It is not known how the painting reached an English collection by the 1920s, but in 1968 the Italian journalist Dr Luigi Grosso made that extraordinary find in Hampstead, purchasing the painting for just £45.
The work has been in the same private collection for nearly two decades and has only been formally displayed in public once – at the Royal Academy show in London in 2010.
An X-ray scan has revealed a painting underneath with an earlier composition, featuring a ploughman, corresponding closely with an existing van Gogh drawing. The painting will be offered for sale at a price between €12m-15m.
London-based Asian art specialist Sydney L Moss will unveil an exceptional 11th-12th century Japanese sculpture of Yakushi Nyorai at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht. The carved wood and gilt lacquer figure of the medicine master Buddha features the firm’s latest scholarly catalogue titled Divine Intervention with a Human Face: Japanese Buddhist Wood Sculpture.
Yakushi Nyorai is the deity who revitalises health and alleviates suffering. From his introduction to Japan in the late 7th century, he amassed an individual cult following. During the political and social instability of the Heian period (794-1185), Yakushi’s perceived powers extended beyond the healing of ailments and he became a demon-quelling deity, purging Japan of anything from epidemic disease to vengeful spirits impeding battle victory.
In this monumental figure, which measures 6ft 5in (1.96m) high on its base, he forms the semui in (fear not) mudra with his right hand and holds a medicine jar in his left.
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