PRESS RELEASE
FEBRUARY
2013
A Bearded Old Man with a
Brown Cloak byJan Lievens,
c1631, oil on canvas,
67x56cm. Exhibited by
Bernheimer-Colnaghi
Abstraktes Bild (780-4) by
Gerhard Richter,
1992, oil on canvas,
260x200cm. Exhibited
by Galerie Odermatt-Vedovi.
RISING STARS AND EMERGING MARKETS – SECOND
ART SYMPOSIUM AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT
15 MARCH 2013
Helvoirt. 6 February 2013 - The second TEFAF Art Symposium to be held at TEFAF Maastricht in the
southern Netherlands on Friday 15 March 2013 will focus on emerging markets and top performing artists as
part of a wide ranging review of the global art market. Following the successful introduction of the Art
Symposium at The European Fine Art Fair last year, artists, collectors and art market experts will take part in
the 2013 event entitled Rising stars in the art world. Emerging markets and top performing artists.
The Symposium will start with a review of the global art market during 2012 and highlight the two very
different emerging markets of China and Brazil. It will look at their development over the past few years,
focusing on why each market has come to global attention. Arts economist Dr Clare McAndrew will present
the findings of the latest TEFAF Art Market Report, which examines these issues and which will be launched
at the Fair. The second theme will be Top performing artists: why they dominate the market and how they
continue to do, which will be introduced by Thomas Galbraith, Director of artnet Analytics. The collector
George Abrams will talk about top performing artists from the 17th century and Joana Vasconcelos will share
her experiences as a successful 21st century artist. The Art Symposium will take place from 10.00 to 11.30 hrs
in room 2.1 of the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre). For more information and registration
please see www.tefafartnews.com .
TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s leading event of its kind, is renowned for its commitment to excellence,
expertise and elegance. This is reflected in the magnificent range of rare works of art that will go on sale at
the Fair, which will be held in the MECC from 15 to 24 March 2013. They will include a spectacular
Tibetan figure which was one of the highlights of the acclaimed recent exhibition Bronze at the Royal
Academy of Arts, London, a superb portrait by the Dutch master Jan Lievens, a New York restaurant guest
book containing the signatures of many of the most famous names of the 20 th century and a powerful 1992
painting by Gerhard Richter.
Rossi & Rossi, the London-based specialists in classical Indian and Himalayan works and contemporary
Asian art, will be returning to TEFAF Maastricht for the first time since 1995, and will celebrate this with a
spectacular exhibition. One of the highlights of their stand at TEFAF will be the beautiful eleven-headed
Tibetan Avalokitèshvara dating from c1400. The 120cm high bronze figure with silver and copper inlay and
inset with semi-precious stones is the largest recorded early Tibetan bronze of the iconic form of this Buddhist
deity and was recently on loan to the internationally-praised exhibition Bronze at the Royal Academy of Arts in
London. It has also been on public display in important exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. After more than 40 years in a European private collection, the
bronze will go on sale at TEFAF Maastricht for a price in the region of €6 million.
Detail of Avalokitèshvara,
Tibet, c1400. Exhibited
by Rossi & Rossi .
Joan Miro, his wife Pilar, his New York art dealer Pierre Matisse, the latter’s wife
Patricia and Miro’s friend arts promoter Joan Prats signed the guest book after
dining together at Lüchow’s restaurant. Exhibited by Thomas Heneage Art Books.
Old Master paintings are a traditional strength of TEFAF Maastricht and this year Bernheimer-Colnaghi of
Munich and London will be exhibiting A Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak by Jan Lievens , one of the
most brilliant members of Rembrandt’s circle. This very fine Tronie, or character study, was painted about
1631 shortly before Lievens moved to the English court and has been described by the distinguished art
historian Professor Werner Sumowski as “among the greatest works executed by the artist.”
One of the many superb pieces of furniture shown at TEFAF Maastricht will be an English George II green
lacqueur bookcase decorated throughout with gilt chinoiseries on a green ground. Exhibited by Mallett of
London and New York, the 250cm high bookcase is attributed to Giles Grendey (1693-1780), who is regarded
as the most accomplished English cabinetmaker of his age. Grendey exported many pieces to Spain,
Portugal and Italy, where the King of Naples was one of his clients. His most celebrated export order was for
a suite of approximately 80 pieces of scarlet japanned furniture for the Duke of Infantado’s castle at Lazcano,
near San Sebastian in northern Spain.
The 265 dealers from 20 countries who will exhibit at TEFAF Maastricht 2013 constantly search for rare
pieces to bring to the Fair that defines excellence in art. Galerie Harmakhis from Brussels will be exhibiting a
ushabti, a funerary figure placed in a tomb, made for Pharaoh Taharqa, an important figure in the history of
Egypt who pursued an ambitious domestic and foreign policy. The 19.2cm high figure, which dates from the
25th Dynasty c690-664BC, came originally from the royal pyramid at Nuri in the Sudan and was excavated by
the American Egyptologist George Reisner in 1917. An unusual exhibit will be a royal food pounder or penu
from 18th century Polynesia on the stand of Galerie Meyer – Oceanic Art of Paris. Although used as a
kitchen tool, the ‘T’ bar type pounders were the exclusive property of the Tahitian royal families. Years of
acquired skill and effort were used to produce an object of deceptively simple elegance from the hardest
volcanic stone on the islands. It is both a perfectly balanced tool and a beautiful piece of sculpture. A unique
document highlighting the social life of New York in the 1950s and 1960s will be brought to TEFAF Maastricht
by Thomas Heneage Art Books of London. It is the guest book of Lüchow’s, a renowned Manhattan
restaurant which was patronised by famous people from the worlds of entertainment, literature, art and
politics. On the market for the first time, the book covers the years 1950-1963 and, among others, contains
the signatures and comments of the dancer Fred Astaire, the film star Humphrey Bogart, the movie director
Cecil B. DeMille, the father and daughter acting dynasty of Henry and Jane Fonda, the comedian Groucho
Marx, and the future US President Richard Nixon. The artist Joan Miro ate there with his wife Pilar, his New
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York art dealer Pierre Matisse (the son of Henri Matisse), Pierre’s wife Patricia and the Spanish arts promoter
Joan Prats, who was a great friend of Miro. The Duke of Windsor, formerly the British monarch Edward VIII,
simply wrote ‘Edward’ in the book. ‘Duke of Windsor’ has been added underneath in another hand. His wife
Wallis, the cause of his abdication, signed herself as ‘Wallis Windsor’.
Ushabti for Pharaoh Taharqa, c690-644BC
Height 19.2cm. Exhibited by Galerie Harmakhis
40 spheres of the same colour by Pol Bury, 1966.
186 x 60 x 113cm Exhibited by Patrick Derom
Pol Bury’s work was deeply rooted in the Surrealist movement and in the 1960s he began a new series of
sculptures which bore a loose resemblance to furniture. But by the time he made 49 spheres of the same
colour on an inclined, raised plane in 1966 he had abandoned references to furniture and focused on pure,
geometric forms. This work, in which Bury uses an echo of an object from the real world to evoke the unreal,
will be exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht by the Patrick Derom Gallery of Brussels. Jewellery specialists Didier
Ltd of London will be bringing a Meret Oppenheim gold necklace which had a special significance for the
German-born Surrealist artist. Its form was taken from a picture that she had painted in 1934 for her lover
Max Ernst which was left behind in Paris when he escaped from the Nazis in 1939. More than 30 years later it
turned up in a Paris flea market and Oppenheim subsequently acquired it. She designed the necklace shortly
before her death in 1985. TEFAF’s tour of the history of art will be brought right up to date by Galerie
Odermatt-Vedovi of Brussels, which will bring Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild 780-04, signed and dated
1992, and Sperone Westwater of New York which will exhibit Jan Worst’s huge 2012 painting Dream of
Drowning, which measures 180x290cm.
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Broekwal 64
5268 HD HELVOIRT
The Netherlands
Titia Vellenga · Madelon Strijbos
+31 411 64 64 40
press@tefaf.com
www.tefaf.com
UK
Cawdell Douglas
10-11 Lower John Street
LONDON W1F 9EB
United Kingdom
Diana Cawdell · Will Bennett
+44 2074 39 28 22
press@cawdelldouglas.com
USA· Canada
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215 Park Avenue South
Suite 2005 · New York
NY10003 · USA
Briana Papa
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Belgium
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Members of the press can register free of charge for the Art Symposium:
Link for registration:
http://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/welcome.do?type=participant&congress=40_13302
Code: TF1503AS (to be filled in on page two of the form)
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Principal Sponsor
Netherlands · Global
The European Fine Art Foundation
Broekwal 64
5268 HD HELVOIRT
The Netherlands
Titia Vellenga · Madelon Strijbos
+31 411 64 64 40
press@tefaf.com
www.tefaf.com
UK
Cawdell Douglas
10-11 Lower John Street
LONDON W1F 9EB
United Kingdom
Diana Cawdell · Will Bennett
+44 2074 39 28 22
press@cawdelldouglas.com
USA· Canada
Netherlands Board
of Tourism & Conventions
215 Park Avenue South
Suite 2005 · New York
NY10003 · USA
Briana Papa
+1 917 720 1279
bpapa@holland.com
www.holland.com
Finland · Norway · Sweden
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 84
1050 BRUSSELS
Belgium
Birgitta Lemmel
+32 498 12 22 60
birgitta.lemmel@skynet.be