TEFAF 2024, it is already a success in attendance and sales. Here are the main

The TEFAF fair in Maastricht, which kicked off its2024 edition over the weekend with a display of artworks from 272 exhibitors from 22 different countries, is coming into full swing. The broad participation of the world’s leading museums made the fair’s landscape even richer, with the presence of such prestigious institutions as the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Louvre, and MoMA. The first preview days were attended by more than 300 museum directors, 650 curators and 40 arts advocacy groups.

Participants included the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the JP Getty Museum, the Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève, the Hispanic Society of America, the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow, the National Gallery of Ireland, the American Friends of the Louvre, the Louvre; Museo d’Orsay, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, M+ Hong Kong, MoMa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Museo Nacional del Prado, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, San Diego Museum of Arts, Stiftung für die Hamburger Kunstammlungen, Toledo Museum of Art Ohio, Teylers Museum, Rijksmuseum, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, National Gallery of Art Washington, and Zayed National Museum Abu Dhabi.

Exhibitors reported numerous successes, with many notable sales. Let’s look at the main ones.

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Modern and contemporary art and design

A Lighthouse called Kanata (booth 476) sold Satoru Ozaki’s The Path to Spring (2024) for 150,000 euros to a private foundation.

Exhibitor Sarah Myerscough Gallery (booth 494) sold an extraordinary willow chair by Full Grown to a private collector in the United States for about £85,000.

Galerie Karsten Greve AG in St. Moritz (booth 410) recorded multiple sales on opening day, including three works by artist Kathleen Jacobs sold to European private collectors for between 30,000 and 500,000 euros.

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois in Paris (booth 450) sold John DeAndrea’s hyperrealist sculpture Adam and Eve to a European museum and Peter Stämpfli’s Pink to a private collector for between 250,000 and 300,000 euros.

David Tunick, Inc ’s (booth 436) sold six works in the opening days, including Edvard Munch’s Madonna lithograph for a six-figure sum, sold at the opening bell, to a Scandinavian buyer and an etching by Jean Morin, from Philippe de Champaigne, Still Life with Pocket Watch, Skull and Vase of Roses, sold to another dealer for his own private collection for a five-figure sum in the first hour of the fair’s opening.

Ben Hunter (booth 495) sold a diptych of drawings by Phoebe Boswell with an asking price of $100,000; a painting by Cedric Morris for about £195,000; Self-Portrait by Frank Auerbach; and a painting by Ithell Colquhoun for an undisclosed sum to private British and American collectors.

Geoffrey Diner Gallery (booth 459), exhibiting for the first time at TEFAF Maastricht, sold two pieces by Tiffany Studio and a set of Scandinavian modernist chairs to private European collectors.

Tina Kim Gallery (booth 462) recorded some notable sales, including a Ha Chong Hyun between $200,000 and $250,000, a Kwon Young-Woo between $150,000 and $200,000, and a major work by Park Seo-Bo.

Paintings

New Orlean’s MS Rau Gallery (booth 334), in its first time at TEFAF, had several important initial sales, including its centerpiece, Vincent van Gogh’s Tête de Paysanne à la Coiffe Blanche, acquired by a private museum outside the EU.

Zebregs&Röell Fine Art (booth 140) sold Gesina ter Borch’s only signed painting, Portrait of Moses ter Borch at the Age of Two, to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with support from the Rijksmuseum Women’s Fund.

Madrid’s Caylus Gallery (booth 364) reported the sale of several five-figure and six-figure pieces, including the Christ on the Cross by Francesco Buoneri, known as Cecco del Caravaggio, purchased by a major American museum for 280,000 euros.

Carlo Virgilio Gallery (booth 369) sold a painting by artist Carl Glotz to the National Museum of Archaeology, History and Art (MNAHA) in Luxembourg and Il Pescatoriello Marvasi to a major American museum.

Dutch Old Masterpaintings specialists Bijl-Van Urk Masterpaintings (booth 370) sold Michaelina Wautier’s Study of a Young Man and A Calm with Kaag and Smalschip at the Shore by Willem van de Velde the Younger for around 500,000 euros.

Kunsthandel P. de Boer (booth 339) sold for 3 million euros to a private Dutch collector a Dutch Fleet War Council and Gouda, Admiral Issäc Sweers’ flagship at sea before the early days battle.

Kunstgalerij Albricht (booth 326) sold View on Veere, Zeeland by Jan Toorop for an asking price of 375,000 euros to a young Dutch collector couple.

Van der Meij Fine Arts (booth 377) reported the sale of Forest Ferns by Bertha Wegmann to a Dutch museum, believed to be the first Wegmann in a Dutch public collection.

The Beheading of the Baptist was sold to a Dutch private collector for about 100,000 euros by Caretto & Occhinegro (booth 372) in the first 30 minutes of the fair’s opening.

Salomon Lilian (booth 308) sold to a private collector a Still Life with Lute, Globe, Sash, Sword, and a portrait print by Inigo Jones, an oil on canvas of the Anglo-Dutch school whose asking price was about 350,000 euros. Other sales included The Triumph of Phoebus Apollo and the Gift of Prometheus to the Arts of Mankind by Jacques Jordaens, The Merry Company by Dirck Hals, and Chrysanthemum selling Jan Steen’s Daughter Mestra to a private European collection.

Charles Beddington (booth 367) made 10 sales during the preview days, including a work by Giovanni Battista Bertucci for 400,000 euros and St. Mark’s Square during the Feast of St. Stephen by Francesco Guardi and Michele Marieschi for an asking price of 450,000 euros.

Antiques

London-based Thomas Coulborn & Sons (booth 175) made a number of sales during the preview days, including a Chinese Huang Huali carved export armchair and a pair of side chairs. The chairs belong to an important group of Huang Huali furniture made in China in the 18th century and intended for export to England, based on designs made in England in the late 1730s.

Runjeet Singh (booth 186) sold a major piece to a private collector in the United States and several other pieces to clients he had met at TEFAF when he last exhibited in 2022.

Koopman Rare Art (stand 166) sold a set of eight salt shakers made for the Earl of Grosvenor by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell to a private collector for about £270,000.

Vanderven Oriental Art (stand 104) sold a pair of large Buddhist lions to a Swiss collector and an extremely rare porcelain figure of a flying goose to an Italian private collector for more than 40,000 euros.

Prahlad Bubbar (booth 180) sold a view of Shalimar Bagh, attributed to Mihr Chand with calligraphy by Hafiz Nur Ullah Lucknow, to an American museum for a six-figure sum.

Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books (booth 114) recorded the sale of six manuscripts, including an illuminated Book of Hours by the Master of Philippa of Guelders, for between 50,000 and 400,000 francs.

Debora Elvira (booth 243) got off to a great start in its opening days with the sale of a Capezzale depicting Mary Magdalene to the State Art Collections of the Royal Castle of Wawel.

Weapons and armory specialist Peter Finer (booth 222) had record sales, including an important gold helmet from Augsburg purchased by New York’s leading collector for a seven-figure sum.

Works on Paper

Stéphane Clavreuil Rare Books (booth 600) sold Jazz, bon à tirer, an extraordinary collection of Henri Matisse plates to a private American collector.

Agnews Works of Paper (booth 609) sold several pieces during preview days, including Tête et épaules de face avec frange by Amedeo Modigliani and pieces by Alberto Martini, Mela Muter and Georges Rouault to private collectors and museums.

William Weston (booth 606), sold The Virtues, Mercy (2021) Damien Hirst for about 35,000 euros, as well as works by Miró, Chagall and Haring.

Colnaghi Elliott Master Drawings (booth 613) made a number of sales to European buyers on the first day, including Leonor Fini’s Visage, June 8, 1990, which was awarded to a U.K.-based Greek collector for 12,000 euros.

Antique Art

In the first 10 minutes of the fair, Galerie Chenel (booth 503) sold a 1st - 2nd century AD Roman marble sculpture entitled Head of Athena to a private European collector.

London’s Kallos Gallery (booth 502) recorded good sales, including a 1st-century AD Roman marble Torso of God for a six-figure sum and a small portrait head of Emperor Lucius Verus for more than £1,000.

Charles Ede (booth 501) sold several works during the opening days, including an Egyptian serpentine torso of Thutmose III, a Roman bronze statuette of a deer, and a Roman marble head of Bacchus.

Returning to TEFAF after a six-year hiatus, Rupert Wace (booth 502) sold very well on opening days, including a Bastet and an elegant South-Arabian head to a private collector, as well as a Roman-Egyptian offering table purchased by a Japanese collector for a five-figure sum.

Sculpture

London gallery Stuart Lochhead Sculpture (booth 112) sold several pieces during the preview days, including Giustiniani’s Portrait Bust of Vincenzo Bellini to a private collector, for an asking price of 76,000 euros; Joseph Chinard’s Portrait of Alexis Guiffrey to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, for around $90,000; and Giambologna’s Mars on the Way, to a major American museum for $4 million.

Galerie Sismann (booth 177), which specializes in sculpture, sold Alessandro Algardi’s Cristo Vivo to the SKD Museum in Dresden.

Xavier Eeckhout (booth 162) sold a pair of Rembrandt Bugatti figures, Chameau apprivoisé, to a Dutch private collection for 400,000 euros.

TEFAF 2024, it is already a success in attendance and sales. Here are the main

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