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    TEFAF MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO MAASTRICHT

    Monday, June 27th, 2022
    Greek enthroned goddess – Thebes, c.540 – 520 BC Terracotta

    Charles Ede of London is displaying this terracotta of a Greek goddess from Thebes at TEFAF, Mastricht, which continues until June 30. Collectors, museums, and art lovers returned in force to the opening weekend of the first TEFAF Maastricht to take place since 2020. Sales are reported to have been good. There was strong presence from the museum community with over 100 institutions sending representatives to the fair and reports of robust sales to this audience alongside significant acquisitions by private collectors.  Museums in attendance included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago from the US along with the British Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art, and Ashmolean Museum from the UK.  Other major European institutions visiting included the Musée de Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the national galleries of Denmark, Berlin, Scotland, and Ireland.

    ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT

    Friday, June 24th, 2022
    Necklace, 1969. Platinum, white gold, 59 sapphires for about 65.95 carats (Burma, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Thailand, Cambodia), diamonds. Heritage Collection.

    This magnificent 1969 Heritage necklace will be presented by Van Cleef and Arpels at TEFAF Maastricht which runs from June 25-30. The 59 sapphires of various origins and shapes are displayed as an exceptional ensemble of precious stones set in white gold and platinum.

    The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) returns to Maastricht in signature style, revealing a selection of recent discoveries and masterpieces for the 35th edition. TEFAF Maastricht attracts the world’s leading dealers and is unrivalled in terms of the breadth and depth of the works presented.

    TEFAF AT MAASTRICHT FROM JUNE 25-30

    Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
    ‘Japonisme’ Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Cloisonne Table by Ferdinand Barbedienne – Design attributed to Edouard Lièvre, c1870

    The rare and important table encapsulates the fashion for the ‘le style japonais et chinois’ which swept Paris in the mid-19th century and was inspired by Empress Eugénie’s Musée chinoisat the Château de Fontainebleau and the opening of trade with Japan. This occasioned a revival of the study of the art and culture of the Far East, which itself was greatly advanced by Japan’s participation in the World’s Fairs, or Great Exhibitions of Art and Industry, which for the first time presented for public consumption a dazzling array of Asian artworks. and techniques including cloisonné enamel, marquetry of shell and ivory, carved wood and patinated bronze. Western artists created their own works by adopting and reinterpreting this newfound source of inspiration. The ensuing style, an amalgamation of Eastern and Western influences was coined ‘Japonisme’ and went on to inspire the organic forms of Art Nouveau and Aestheticism.

    Adrian Alan Ltd. of London will present this table at TEFAF. With an extraordinary selection of antiques gathered by 242 leading global dealers The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) – normally held in March – runs at Maastricht  in The Netherlands from June 25-30. Collectors, specialists and curators can experience 7000 years of art history at a fair which offers everything from Greek statues to the best of contemporary art and design.

    GIVENCHY COLLECTION PROVOKES A GLOBAL SCRAMBLE

    Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
    TWO POLYCHROME MARBLES BUSTS PROBABLY REPRESENTING EMPERORS HADRIAN AND COMMODUS, ITALIAN, ROMAN, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY

    The global scramble for items from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy continued at Christie’s in Paris today. The cachet of owning something from this prestige collection continues to add enormous value. Many estimates were rendered nonesensical. The two polychrome 17th or 18th century busts illustrated here sold for €2,442,000 over a top estimate of €250,000 this morning. Lot 105, the sixth lot of the sale, was not alone in far exceeding the top estimate. A Louis XV Aubusson rug with a top estimate of €60,000 made €214,200; a pair of 20th century metal and porphyry top occasional tables with a top estimate of €12,000 made €69,300, a still life by Georges Braque made €88,200 over a top estimate of €30,000, a Louis XVI beechwood armchair covered with a fabric designed by Braque made €157,000 over a top estimate of €10,000 and a pair of probably 18th century German silver gilt beakers from the Cobblers Guild made €11,340 over a top estimate of €3,000.

    UPDATE: GIVENCHY LIVE AUCTIONS ACHIEVE € 114.4 MILLION. Buying by lot 57% from Europe and Middle East, 12% from Asia and 30% from the Americas

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for June 14, June 5, March 10 and February 2, 2022)

    MARVELLOUS POURBOS PORTRAIT AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT

    Tuesday, June 14th, 2022

    Frans Pourbus II (1569 – 1622) – Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562 – 1612)

    The Weiss Gallery, London, will bring this arresting 1602 portrait by Frans Pourbos to TEFAF Maasticht which runs from June 25-30. The artist, arguably the most sought-after court portrait painter throughout western Europe during the first decades of the seventeenth century, here depicts his greatest patron, Vincenzo Gonzaga, the Duke of Mantua, in an imperial manner appropriate for a revered European prince. The Duke proudly wears the prestigious Order of the Golden Fleece, which was conferred to him by Philip II of Spain in 1589.

    Under Vincenzo’s reign, the ducal household comprised of more than six hundred people and it was famously extravagant, not least for the art collection amassed by the duke and his forebears. Between 1627 and 1630 a part of the collection was sold to King Charles I – much of these purchases remain key pieces from the British Royal Collection – while the rest was to be scattered following the sacking of the ducal palace in 1630 by imperial troops during a dispute over the Gonzaga succession. At one time the collection consisted of well over 2,000 paintings and more than 20,000 works of art, including bronzes, marbles, medals, coins, armour, ceramics, as well as rare manuscripts and books, making the Gonzaga collection one of the greatest ever amassed.

    Frans Pourbus II was born in Antwerp and naturalised French in 1617. He was the most influential court painter of the late-sixteenth and early- seventeenth centuries.

    ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR IN LISMORE THIS WEEKEND

    Saturday, June 4th, 2022
    Rug on the rocks – Annamore Antiques will bring a selection of Persian rugs to the fair

    A much enlarged Opera Festival antiques and art fair takes place on June 4 and 5 at the community centre in the shadow of Lismore Castle.  Among the members of the Irish Antique Dealers Association who will attend are Marie Curran (jewellery and silver) Dublin, Greene’s Antiques of Drogheda and Treasures Irish Art from Athlone.

    Dealers from right around the country will bring an appetising selection of Irish art, French antique furniture, Persian rugs, high end vintage fashion with a global provenance, jewellery, oil lamps, porcelain, glass, coins, banknotes, boxes, militaria and collectibles including clocks.  There will be small easily carried pieces and even genealogy solutions.  Organiser Robin O’Donnell of Hibernian Antique Fairs who managed to keep fairs going online during lockdown will make another online offering soon;  he plans to sell online his own private collection gathered over the past 35 years in a format similar to the  online fairs.

    A NON-STOP SOFA MAKES 15,500 AT DE VERES

    Tuesday, May 24th, 2022
    THIS NON STOP SOFA MADE 15,500 AT HAMMER

    A rare 1970’s ‘Non Stop’ sofa by Ueli Berger, Eleanore Peduzzi-Riva and Hans Ulrich for De Sede, Switzerland made a hammer price of 15,500 at de Veres Art and Design auction in Dublin today. This iconic piece of 20th century design is upholstered in black leather and felt composed of 20 individual pieces that zip together. It can configure into a number of different positions and broken down into smaller sofas if needed. It earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest sofa with an example that boasted more than 400 connected sections. This version has 20 sections and measures 5m in a straight length.

    TEFAF NEW YORK NOW OPEN WITH GLOBAL TREASURES

    Friday, May 6th, 2022
    FRANCIS BACON – POPE circa 1958

    Helly Nahmad is offering this Francis Bacon Pope at TEFAF New York which runs from today until May 12. It is among a number of stellar highlights at the fair which features world class dealers. Bacon worked on his pope paintings, variations on the magnificent portrait of Pope Innocent X, for more than 20 years. There is work by Frantisek Kupka, Claude Lalanne, Louise Bourgeois, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Morande, Jean Prouve with Charlotte Perriand, Roy Lichtenstein, Anselm Kiefer to be seen here.

    TEFAF New York was founded in early 2016, originally as two annual art fairs in New York at the Park Avenue Armory — TEFAF New York Fall and TEFAF New York Spring. Today, TEFAF New York is one singular, annual fair that encapsulates modern and contemporary art, jewellery, antiques, and design, featuring around 90 leading exhibitors from around the globe. Tom Postma Design, celebrated for its innovative work with leading museums, galleries, and art fairs, has developed designs for the fairs that interplay with the spectacular spaces while giving them a lighter, contemporary look and feel. Exhibitor stands will flow throughout the Armory’s landmark building encompassing the Wade Thompson Drill Hall and extending to both the first and second floors of the Armory’s period rooms, creating a fair of unprecedented depth and impact in New York City.

    A FIRST LOOK AT TEFAF NEW YORK SPRING

    Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
    Keith Haring – Piglet Goes Shopping 1989

    Robilant + Voena will present Piglet Goes Shopping by Keith Haring at TEFAF New York from May 6-10. A first look at the fair has just been released, with 15 works from the upcoming event offering a glimpse into the quality, breadth, and depth of artworks available from 91 dealers. Among them is work by Modigliani, Picasso, Giorgio Morandi, Richard Diebenkorn, Kehinde Wiley, Pierre Soulages, Francois-Xavier Lalanne and Cy Twombly. The fair, at the Park Avenue Armoury, has been widely recognised for introducing new ways of looking at, thinking about, and experiencing art.

    THE WINTER SHOW OPENS IN NEW YORK

    Friday, April 1st, 2022
    Alexander Calder – Spirale (1965)

    Among the highlights at The Winter Show which opens in New York today is this unique tapestry designed by Alexander Calder and woven in the Cauquil-Prince workshop in Paris. It is being show by Boccara Gallery of New York, the leading gallery specialising in modern and antique tapestry. The postponed fair, which runs until April 10, is at 660 Madison Avenue, the former flagship location of Barney’s. More than 60 exhibitors are spread over four floors in the building. Among them are Aronson of Amsterdam, Daniel Crouch Rare Books, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Hyde Park Antiques, Koopman Rare Art, Richard Green, Ronald Phillips and Veronique Bamps of Monaco. On show is a collection of museum-quality works that span art, antiques, and design, from antiquities to contemporary art.