ART+AUCTION MARCH 2016 (^) | BLOUINARTINFO.COM
Images from top: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Hanna Schygulla, 1978, tendered by Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna; Attic black-figure pelike, by the
Plousios painter, 520–10 B.C., available from Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; Pablo Picasso’s oil on canvas Tête d’homme, 1972, presented
by Galerie Bastian, Berlin; a terra-cotta depiction of a satyr and a nymph,1886, by Jules Desbois, at the stand of Agnew’s, London; Saint
George and the Dragon, ca. 1630, by Giovanni Battista Discepoli, offered by Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings, Geneva; and one of a set of
six gilt-wood Regency armchairs with tapestry coverings depicting scenes from Fables de la Fontaine, available from Galerie Aveline, Paris.
TEFAF
ver the years, as a global interest
in art has spread, so has the
desire to collect objects that
are unusual and unique,”
says Munich jeweler Christian
Hemmerle, explaining the
ever-growing attraction of the European Fine Art
Fair (TEFAF), the 29th edition of which runs
March 11 through 20, at the Maastricht Exhibition
& Congress Centre. At this latest edition of
the original multidisciplinary fair, 270 dealers are
offering not just rare-to-market canvases and
objets de vertú but also important tribal pieces,
Asian works of art, and an enhanced selection of
postwar and contemporary art and design.
With regard to the latter, says London gallerist
Hidde van Seggelen, “some of the artists presented
may be younger than the fair itself.” —ANGELA M.H. SCHUSTER
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