The 6th edition of Masterpiece, the international cross collecting fair for art, antiques and design, takes place at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London from June 25 to July 1 with a preview on June 24. The fair offers museum quality works with superb provenance from 150 galleries worldwide.
Last year the art market generated over half a billion pounds worth of art sales during the week of Masterpiece. This success can, in part, be attributed to the groundswell of interest and purchases from world-renowned institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Rijksmuseum, MoMA, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Getty and Tate, to name a few. The Royal Bank of Canada is principal sponsor and in 2015 the fair welcomes the Wallace Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Sir John Soane’s Museum as its official cultural partners. Here is a small selection from this years offerings:
Laurence Stephen Lowry, Crowther Street Stockport, 1964, Oil on Canvas. Courtesy of Richard Green.
The Medici Tompion, circa 1969, ebony and gilt brass mounted Grande Sonnerie table clock, presented by William III as a gift to Cosimo de Medici, £4,500,000 courtesy of Carter Marsh & Co.
Blue and White Bottle with the Arms of Castile and Leon China—Ming dynasty, Wanli period (1573-1620) at Jorge Welsh
Antonio Joli, A View of Naples from the Bay, circa 1740 at Robilant + Voena
A Rare Anglo-Indian Polychrome, Decorated Drum Table Top, c. 1880, Courtesy of Apter-Fredericks.
A George II Carved Side table Attributed to William Linnell The Design Possibly by John Linnell, Courtesy of Apter-Fredericks.
19th Century Secretaire a Abattant by Maison Rogie of Paris, after the original in the Wallace Collection, made in 1777 by Pierre-Antoine Foullet at Butchoff Antiques.