Important Rembrandt for sale at TEFAF Maastricht
Helvoirt, 13 January 2006 – One of the undeniable highlights at TEFAF Maastricht 2006 will be a portrait of The Apostle James the Major by Rembrandt. This portrait, which has not been on the market for 60 years, is one of the last major paintings by Rembrandt in private hands. It is being sold in the 400th anniversary year of the artist’s birth. The portrait of The Apostle James the Major is being sold by Salander- O’Reilly Galleries, New York. TEFAF Maastricht runs from 10-19 March 2006 at the MECC, Maastricht. |
REMBRANDT 400 YEAR
Focus on Rembrandt throughout 2006
In 2006 it will have been four hundred years ago that Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was born. The spectacular Rembrandt 400 programme pays homage to Holland’s greatest 17th-century painter. Like no other artist, Rembrandt managed to capture light and shadows in paint. In addition, his drawings and etchings are unequalled. |
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Strong sales at the opening of TEFAF Maastricht 2006
Maastricht, March 12th 2006 - A large number of sales were reported during the first four days of the nineteenth international fine art fair TEFAF Maastricht. Sales included works by Léger, Picasso, Miró, Rembrandt and Cranach. Around 31,500 visitors from all across the globe attended the first four days of the fair, an increase of 20%. Many museum buyers and museum groups attended the Fair including Musée du Louvre (Paris), Musée d’Orsay (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Getty Museum (Los Angeles), National Gallery of Art (Washington), High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin). Maastricht Aachen Airport registered 169 airplanes during the first four days. TEFAF 2006 runs until 19th March at the MECC, Maastricht.
20th century art
Waddington Galleries were delighted to achieve sales for between 4 and 5 million US dollars including A-Z Box of Friends and Family, 1963, by Joe Tilson which included original panels by several Pop artists including Hockney, Paolozzi and Blake. Pace Wildenstein sold a work by John Chamberlain to a new European client. Acquavella Galleries sold three silkscreen prints depicting Jacqueline Kennedy, 1964, by Andy Warhol while Landau sold several major works including a large oil on canvas by Picasso, Homme Assis (Musketeer) signed and dated 1972, and La Lune by Joan Miró, oil on canvas signed and dated 1948. Marlborough Galleries sold two large portraits by Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and Beck & Eggeling sold eight works by the artist including four collages and two bronze sculptures, Infanta Margarita for € 110,000 and Reina Mariana for € 138,000. Richard Gray Gallery sold La Joconde aux clés by Fernand Léger for just under one million US dollars.
Old Masters
Within the first four days, Noortman Master Paintings had sold twentyfour paintings including a Peasant Family in a Cottage Interior by the Dutch painter Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) and Johnny van Haeften had sold nine paintings including The Hofstede Wolf en Hoeck on the Purmer by Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), asking price 1.4 million pounds, while Salomon Lilian sold Self Portrait of the Artist Writing a Letter by Rembrandt’s pupil, Willem Drost (1633-1659), asking price € 450,000. Bernheimer Fine Old Masters sold Christ blessing the children by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553).
Works of art
Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz sold thirty out of thirty-three 18th-century theatre figures by Kändler, including the extremely rare L’Indifférent after Watteau. At Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art a Kangxi famille verte dish went to an American collector for € 200,000. Ben Janssens Oriental Art sold twenty-eight pieces on the first day including a limestone reliquary casket in the shape of a coffin to a new European collector for around € 80,000. Kunstkammer Georg Laue sold an amber Madonna and Child, northern Germany, circa 1550, one of the major pieces of his spectacular collection of amber works of art.
Classical antiquities and illuminated manuscripts
Jean-David Cahn sold his most important sculpture, a Greek life-size marble statue of a draped goddess, possibly Aphrodite, 4th – 3rd century BC, for around € 440,000. An Italian collector bought a marble Corinthian capital for around € 45,000 at Rupert Wace, while Charles Ede sold a Roman marble portrait head of Empress Faustina, 2nd century.
Within the first day, Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat had sold ten miniatures and one manuscript to a number of international collectors.
AXA Art, principal sponsor of TEFAF
The Thrill of Collecting - in 2006 AXA Art will celebrate the variety of collections that the Company protects with a display of curious and wonderful objects loaned by passionate collectors. The impact of water damage will also be explored - a concern at the forefront of the art world's minds following Hurricane Katrina.
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TEFAF Maastricht shows the best of the best in art
Maastricht, March 7, 2006 – TEFAF Maastricht, the renowned international art and antiques fair, has strengthened its Modern Art section. Leading galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Richard Gray, Pace Wildenstein, Jan Krugier and Hopkins Custot show works by Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Koons, Picasso, Dubuffet, Mondrian and Khnopff. The Old Masters are represented with two paintings by Rembrandt and a recently reattributed portrait by Frans Hals. TEFAF Maastricht runs from 10 to 19 March 2006 with a total of 218 galleries and art and antique dealers, twenty-eight of whom are new.
Modern & contemporary art
Pace Wildenstein is bringing fourteen works by Mondrian, including Composition with Red Yellow and Blue, as well as work by Rothko and Stella while Wildenstein & Co. offers Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife by Gauguin, painted in Tahiti in 1896. Newcomers to the Fair, Gagosian Gallery is bringing Saint Benedict, 2000, by Jeff Koons and Landscape 1978 by Francis Bacon, and Galerie Jan Krugier shows two important works by Picasso, L’Entretien, oil on canvas 1923, and Tête, 1962-64, the maquette for the sculpture in the Civic Center Plaza in Chicago.
New participant Hopkins Custot, is bringing one of the most important paintings of Khnopff’s oeuvre, L’Encens. This symbolist work has been seen in many exhibitions around the world and comes from a Japanese collection. Spanish artist Manolo Valdés is well represented at the Fair with several sculptures at Beck & Eggeling and Galerie Thomas and two large paintings at Marlborough. Paintings and sculptures by Fernando Botero are shown at Hopkins Custot, Marlborough, Galerie Thomas and Leslie Smith and Salis & Vertis is selling Coastal Landscape by Edvard Munch for € 2.3 million.
20th Century design is represented by Galerie Downtown with a rare large reading table, 1951, by recognised French designers, Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé, price € 1.5 million. Chairs by designer Ron Arad are shown at Galerie Downtown and also at Frans Leidelmeijer, whose stand was designed by Arad.
Paintings, drawings & prints
TEFAF celebrates Rembrandt’s 400th anniversary with two paintings by Rembrandt, The Apostle James the Major, dated 1661 offered by Salander O’Reilly for in the region of € 33 to 36 million and Young man with a Red Doublet, dated 1633, at Noortman Master Paintings for € 27 million. Helmut H. Rumbler and David Tunick both present a series of etchings by Rembrandt, including prints of his well-known Three Crosses in excellent condition. A reattributed portrait of the Haarlem burgomaster Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan by Frans Hals is at David Koetser Gallery for € 10.5 million. Bernheimer-Colnaghi shows an early 17th century depiction of St. Andrew, and Caylus an important Rest on the Flight to Egypt, 1648-50, both by Jusepe de Ribera.
Acquavella Galleries brings House with Sunflowers, 1886, by Vincent van Gogh.
Moretti is asking € 11 million for Venice, the Grand Canal from Palazzo Flangini to the Church of San Marcuola by Canaletto, circa 1740, probably the best Canaletto on the market. This is a superb example of a short period in Canaletto’s work when his use of a cool, clear light brought greater clarity and precision to his painting. Newcomer Eric Coatalem brings La Vierge à l’Enfant by Simon Vouet, price € 1.2 million. The Fair has some stunning examples of early paintings. Adriano Ribolzi presents Volto Santo – Head of Christ by Fra Angelico, a gold ground painting from the first half of the 15th century, while Moretti sells a portable tryptich by Agnolo Gaddi from the late 14th century.
Works of Art
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Kändler’s birth, Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz presents a collection of 18th - century theatrical figures by the artist while Michele Beiny shows a monumental pair of Meissen birds by Kändler, 1735, commissioned by Augustus the Strong for his Japanese Palace in Dresden, price € 5 million.
Kunstkammer Laue brings an unusual and important exhibition of amber objects. Silver specialist, Marks, is selling a spectacular pair of wine coolers, The Strafford Wine Coolers, circa 1711, by David Willaume. The coolers were hidden for over a century in a bank vault and are therefore in pristine condition, price € 2.2 million.
Amongst the Oriental art dealers, Ben Janssens Oriental Art offers a group of dancing and music-making pottery figures from Sichuan, Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) and Marcel Nies Oriental Art is selling a Buddha Dipamkara, Gandhara, 2nd–3rd century. This extremely rare sculpture is one of the earliest depictions of an ancient Buddha. Newcomer Grace Wu Bruce will present a collection of timeless 16th and 17th century Ming furniture, much of it in Huanghuali wood. Antiquities specialist Jean-David Cahn is selling a life-size Greek marble statue of a goddess, probably Aphrodite, 4th-3rd Century BC, for € 440,000 while Pelham Galleries offers a rare Rococo bureau plat, circa 1750, from Dresden by the court cabinetmaker Michael Kimmel. A rare and very important Louis XV Pendule À L’Éléphant with a music box, signed Charles Baltazar à Paris is for sale from Richard Redding Antiques.
Illuminated manuscripts
One of the top pieces in this specialist section is a three-volume Latin Bible, the prologues attributed to Saint Jerome, from Dr. Jörn Günther Antiquariat. The Bible, Paris circa 1250, has 173 large illuminated initials and is for sale at € 3 million.
AXA Art, principal sponsor of TEFAF
The Thrill of Collecting - in 2006 AXA Art will celebrate the variety of collections that the Company protects with a display of curious and wonderful objects loaned by passionate collectors. The impact of water damage will also be explored - a concern at the forefront of the art world's minds following Hurricane Katrina.
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