Leonardo's drapery study (click on image to enlarge).
MASTER drawings by artists including Leonardo, Guercino, Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens will feature at The European Fine Art Fair’s (TEFAF) Silver Jubilee celebrations at Maastricht in March. Among highlights of an exhibition loaned by the Fondation Custodia in Paris will be a Drapery study by Leonardo da Vinci, a closely related study by Lorenzo di Credi, a Study of a nude child for the infant Christ, seated on the Virgin’s knee by Guercino and The healing of the mother-in-law of St Peter by Rembrandt van Rijn.
Turkish Delight (1974) by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) to be exhibited at TEFAF 2012 by Salis & Vertes. (Click on image to enlarge).
In sharp contrast the first-ever BMW Art Car, created by the American artist Alexander Calder in 1975, is to be shown at TEFAF 2012. The BMW Art Car project was founded in 1975 by French racing driver Hervé Poulain who asked Calder to produce a bodywork design for the car Poulain drove in the Le Mans 24 Hours race. Many renowned artists, including David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, have since created BMW art cars. Calder’s abstract mobiles were some of the most innovative sculptures of the 20th century. Among the exhibitors at TEFAF with works by Calder are Salis & Vertes of Zürich and Salzburg who will show Turkish Delight (illustrated on the right) made in in 1974.
TEFAF runs from March 16-25 2012 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 5, 2012)