Tefaf returns with Majesty in an uncertain market

A manuscript of the Middle Ages is invisible for a period of 60 years, hand -handed by the famous French semen, Jean -Pitcour and his workshop, is one of the most exciting exhibits in the thirty -eighth annual edition of Tefaf Maastricht Fair, who was shown to guests invited on Thursday.

“This is a global history,” said Dr. Yorne Gunter, a bright manuscript dealer in Switzerland, referring to an explanation in the watch. He is pruning, the young king Henry VIII from England kneeling next to an angel and Catherine from Aragon, his first six wives.

“With manuscripts, you can really get close to the big characters in the Middle Ages,” Goner said, as one of his employees recorded the book through this image, Dating from about 1509, which She was owned and handled by Queen Catherine. “It is different from a picture. It’s more intimate.”

Catherine was one of the most essentials of the Tudor England. The failure of Henry and Catherine’s marriage in the production of male heir to alive – or cancellation from the Pope – to Henry Divide from the Church of Rome. The manuscript was priced 1.4 million Swiss francs, about $ 1.6 million.

The esteemed Dutch event from the European Fine Arts Foundation, which lasts until March 20, includes this year 273 exhibitors from 21 countries, and the last main international exhibition remaining in the first place for the art and things before the twentieth century. (TEFAF also holds an exhibition of a smaller sister focusing on modern and contemporary art in New York in May.) This year’s edition faced the enormous opposite winds. The ancient Master of Fashion has fell with private sector colleges, and the international art market is in a state of recession. It also rocked the commercial wars of President Trump the markets and the long relations between the United States and Europe have risen.

“This is a difficult time in terms of broader sense,” said Massimiliano Carito, a partner at the old MA in Rome and Uru. Caretto and Occhinegro. “With Trump and wars, everyone is afraid of everything.”

“But TEFAF is the only event in which museums, mosque and merchants gathered together and want to buy,” Carito said.

During the first clock of the crowded inspection, the Italian exhibition did not face any difficulty in finding a museum buyer who was not discovered after discovery by the “recently discovered” Christ by the Flemitter Martin Van Hesmarkk. Traders research indicates that this is the original central image of the massacres whose sideboards are preserved at the Worsester Arts Museum, in Massachusetts. It dates back to about 1550, this Dutch painting, which is affected by Italian 500,000 euros, or about 544,000 dollars.

In recent years, museums, especially those American, have become increasingly buyers for ancient Master of TEFAF. The exhibition also tried to stimulate its attractiveness by expanding the number of compartments showing modern and contemporary art. This year, there were about 60 of these merchants, including the participant for the first time Richard Salton from London.

Saliana Serian’s Single Paints and drawings of the Lebanese Palestinian artist Juliana Seraavim (1934-2005) were in harmony with the desire of many museums to balance their collections with the works of female artists who have been ignored long ago. Seravim Once he said She wanted to photograph “how important love for women”, and her mysterious luxurious images full of exciting symbolism. Rich -layer oil, “Untitled”, from 1968, was allocated for 120,000 euros, or about 130,000 dollars, by a museum.

The focus of American museums continues to expand their works by active artists, even with the interruption of the Trump administration on diversity, fairness and integration initiatives.

James Steward, Director of the Art Museum at Princeton University, is scheduled to open New building In October, he was one of the managers of the American Museum and the C -Victims of the Tefaf inspection. Steward said that he is visiting the exhibition for the sixteenth time, that he is always looking for the pieces that fill the gaps in the holdings of his foundation funded by the private sector, especially those roaming in different cultures.

“We have to deal with our basic values,” Steward said, calling for concerns about the Trump administration’s cultural revival. “Diversity bakes in our groups.”

He said: “We have art and things from all over the world and from 5,000 years of human history, and we will continue to balance our collections with works and artists who we believe are historically deficient.”

This time, a Valnican painting in the sixteenth century of Madonna and the child in the framework of a similar Japanese lyric, the eyes of Steward caught. This rare creature, associated with the evangelical activities of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan, was priced at 336,000 euros, or about 365,000 dollars, in the London dealer booth, Jorge Welsh.

Several visitors said that although this year TEFAF still reserves its reputation in providing a wealth of quality elements from the museum, the main works distinguished by major names were less and further.

“Despite the lack of clear shows as we have seen in the past years, people were still quietly in good works and there was a very international crowd in attendance, making the teams all this,” Morgan LongLondon -based technical advisor, after inspection.

Other early sales included “in the middle of the seventeenth of the seventeenth century” in the Virgin in prayer with a subjective image “by the Flemish artist Michael Sweets Who worked for several years in Rome. This was sold to a European Museum for about 4 million euros, or about $ 4.3 million, from the Geneva headquarters booth Salomon Lilian. The recent restoration revealed that the painting was made in Rome while the artist was working with Camello Bamfili, a famous mosque that was the nephew of the Pope X. The London Gallerist Bin Brown It was sold in 2006, sculpted from the golden apple, “Pomme (Moyenne), by the strange and popular French designer Claude Laln to an American mosque at a price of 950,000 dollars.

TEFAF organizers said at least 62 groups of museum’s shepherds attended the inspection. Among them was a group of about 30 sponsors of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, including Benny PhoenicCollector for contemporary art based in Boston and Florida.

“I usually go to Basel Art,” said Phoenic. The museum encouraged me to come to Mastercht. I did not buy anything for a year and did not expect to fall in love with anything. “

But after a reserves on Hans Hoffmann’s abstract 1961 are large and happy coloring From the New York Showroom Yaris artShe said: “The one was asking for an unknown amount of seven numbers, she said:” I love bright colors. It seems optimistic to me. “