AN enormous Aladdin’s Cave of treasures has opened up in Maastricht where The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) gets underway today. With more than 35,000 works strictly vetted by 175 experts the fair is full of fabulous objects of astonishing quality. Organisers say that TEFAF 2014 challenges assumptions that supply is drying up and that there are a very limited number of truly important objects left. TEFAF runs until March 23. Here is a minute selection:
Zsolnay Manufacture glazed ceramic vase decorated with a frieze of red enamel, kneeling women picking tulips in a bucolic landscape with iridescent colors and stormy sky, as a nabi landscape at Galerie Mathivet.
Diego Giacometti (1902-1985)
Coffee-table in “X” shaped, second version
Bronze with brown and green patina at L’Arc en Seine.
Hashiguchi Goyô (1880-1921) Young woman in a summer kimono woodblock print, mica ground. Galerie Tanakaya
Kohl flask in the shape of a palm column
Core-formed glass Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, circa 1350 BC Harmakhis Gallerie
Simon Hantai (1922-2008)
Meun at Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Van Cleef & Arpels
Earrings, yellow gold, platinum, round diamonds, green agate, kite-cut citrines and 2 briolette-cut citrines, white gold.
Yellow gold, platinum, round diamonds, green agate, kite-cut citrines and 2 briolette-cut citrines, white gold.
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
Abstract composition at Applicat-Prazan.