TEFAF sets an example for Europe!

March 2010 - TEFAF Maastricht 2010 has started and will be open until Sunday 21 March. TEFAF sets an example for Europe "TEFAF Maastricht has set an example that the rest of Europe should follow", said Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, during a visit to what she called "the world's leading art and antiques fair". "TEFAF adapts to its circumstances: adding new sections, changing focus, refusing to be complacent. TEFAF has decided: 'The world is changing, so we are changing too'." Ms Kroes praised the Fair on 12 March, the day after a record 10,500 people attended the private view. TEFAF Maastricht continues until Sunday 21 March. More information Museum purchases Dealers reported strong sales to private collectors and museums. The National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the newly discovered Winter Landscape with Skaters painted by Adam van Breen in 1611 from John Mitchell Fine Paintings (London) for €910,000. Antiquities dealer Rupert Wace Ancient Art (London) sold a Roman bronze statuette of Aphrodite wearing a silver diadem to a French private museum. Other purchases included two pieces bought by German and American institutions from Julius Böhler (Starnberg) and Renaissance cutlery, sold to an American museum by Kunstkammer Georg Laue (Munich). Masterpieces at TEFAF Quality, rarity and provenance have become the hallmarks of TEFAF Maastricht. The Fair has an extraordinary range of important works on show. Highlights of the 23rd edition of TEFAF include a bed that once belonged to the great French diplomat Talleyrand, the Italian Expressionist Marino Marini's greatest picture, one of the last major paintings by Paul Gauguin and a key early work by Damien Hirst. More information TEFAF Journal The daily updated TEFAF Journal covers interviews with dealers and visitors in English, highlights at TEFAF and special events in the city of Maastricht. TEFAF Journal is broadcasted by regional and national Dutch television as well as by narrow casting at the Fair, in hotels and various public areas in and around Maastricht. The show can also be viewed on TEFAF's website. More information AXA Art is the principal sponsor of TEFAF AXA Art's partnership with TEFAF provides an important platform to profile the company's expertise to the art collecting community and to bring attention to subjects of collection management such as the fragility of art objects and important strategies to maintain a collection in optimum condition. The European Fine Art Foundation, Broekwal 64, 5268 HD Helvoirt, Netherlands (press@tefaf.com).

Fuente: TEFAF