Maastricht, 11 March 2011
The highly anticipated TEFAF Maastricht will take place from 18 to 27 March 2011 and feature 260 art dealers selling more than thirty thousand objects. According to TEFAF chairman Ben Tefaf Jannsens, many visitors from China are expected and twenty-two Asian galleries will be exhibiting. South-American collectors, especially from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are also expected.
The most important lots on sale are the following :
Johnny Van Haeften: Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – the Choice between Vice and Virtue (1633), by Dutch master Frans Francken the Younger, price: 14 M$; Hague gallery A. Aardewerk: a rare collection of silverware from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, made in Maastricht; Galerie de Paris: Le Livre d’Heure de Catherine, Book of Hours made in Tours (between 1485 et 1490), price: 575 K$, as well as thirty miniatures by the Master of Jean Charpentier, price: 250 K$ ; Dickinson Gallery: Woman Picking Flowers (c. 1874), Impressionist painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, price: 15 M$; Lowell Libson gallery : a group of remarkable landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, notably a watercolour entitled Wooded Landscape with Horseman (c. 1762), price: 350 K€ ; Rupert Wace Ancient Art : the oldest work at the fair: a seven thousand year old Greek female idol, price: 1.2 M€; Anthony JP Meyer : Oceanic art, a statue of a squatting figure from the Solomon islands, canoe prow adornment, late nineteenth/early twentieth century, (unreleased six figure price); Cohen & Cohen : Chinese porcelain crouching leopard (1720), price: 5.6 M$, as well as an extremely rare pair of deer (c.1750), price: 480 K$.