New York, 23 August 2012
From 19 to 25 October, the Park Avenue Armoury will welcome collectors, connoisseurs, interior designers, and art amateurs to the 24th International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show.
Founded in 1989, the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show was New York’s “first vetted fair and remains one of the world’s most prestigious and influential art and antique events”, as stated by Haughton International Fairs.
Sixty-five of the world’s leading dealers will present a selection of museum quality furniture, paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, glass, clocks, watches, arms, armour, rare books, manuscripts, jewellery, objets de vertu, Fabergé, silver, antiquities, and ethnographic art.
Some of the highlights of this year’s fair include: an 8-9th century Jina Stone Head from Uttar Pradesh (Tambaran Gallery); a group of banded alabaster vessels from Neolithic Syria dating from 6th millennium BCE, valued at $125,000 (Ariadne Galleries NY); Alexander Calder’s signed 1971 Circles and Pyramid Composition, gouache on paper (Jill Newhouse gallery); an early 20th century impressionistic bronze model of a ‘Walking Panther’ by Rembrandt Bugatti, 1884-1916 (The Sladmore Gallery, UK); Claudius Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia—the first atlas illustrated with woodcut maps and the earliest map to bear a signature, circa 1482 (Daniel Crouch Rare Books); original atelier plaster for the figure of Elegance, a detail of the monumental relief, Friendship between America and France for the Maison Francaise in Rockefeller Center, NYC (Martin du Louvre, France).