TEFAF a big success
The latest issue of the Meuse-Rhine reports:
The 20th session of The Fine Arts Fair in Maastricht has been judged a success on the business front. There were many new collectors from Germany and Spain. The fair attracted 71,000 visitors, 15% fewer than last year but this was the intention of the organizers who wanted to focus on ‘serious’ visitors. One hundred and twenty-five museums from all over the world were active at the fair and a number of their purchases will be announced in the near future.
In the first four days of the fair Maastricht Airport welcomed 305 private aircraft, 45% more than in 2006. Among the top sales were Picasso’s Femme à la coiffe d’Arlesienne sur fond vert, which went for EUR 11.26m by Wildenstein & Co., New York, Degas’ Danseuses was up for an asking price of EUR 8.5m from Noortman Master Paintings in Maastricht and the Portrait de Beatrice Hastings by Modigliani went for EUR 7m from Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris.
One of the high points of TEFAF 2007 was the ancient bronze tapir from China, inlaid with gold and turquoise, from the 4th century BC; the asking price was EUR 9.3m — a record price for an antique bronze, according to James Hennessey of Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art, London/New York. The Portret van een jong meisje by Jan Lievens went to an American collection of Dutch Old Masters, the asking price was EUR 3.1m. And there was, of course, a great deal more.
Source: The Meuse-Rhine Journal, 31 March 2007
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