TEFAF Update

I am traveling and having some issues with the internet connection at the hotel.  Just some quick info on TEFAF for now.  Sales appear to be good and the preview evening on Friday had 10,500 people attend.

TEFAF Maastricht has set an example that the rest of Europe should follow, said Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, during a visit to what she called “the world’s leading art and antiques fair”. Ms Kroes praised the Fair on Friday 12 March, the day after a record 10,500 people attended the private view where dealers reported good business.
“The European Fine Art Fair can proudly call itself the world’s leading art and antiques fair,” Ms Kroes told the Information Communications Technology Business Summit in Maastricht. “What is especially relevant to my remarks today is that TEFAF has continued to grow through the crisis. TEFAF has grown when other fairs are cutting back or shutting down.

"There are lessons here that others in Europe can copy. TEFAF adapts to its circumstances: adding new sections, changing focus, refusing to be complacent. TEFAF has decided: ‘The world is changing, so we are changing too’."

The success story of TEFAF, continued at the private view of the 23rd edition of the Fair. A record 10,500 invited guests attended the private view. This was an increase of 11% on 2009. Dealers reported good business. Many private and institutional collectors in all fields from around the globe visited the Fair.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the newly discovered Winter Landscape with Skaters painted by Adam van Breen in 1611 from John Mitchell Fine Paintings of London for €910,000. The painting is one of the earliest known works by Van Breen.

Antiquities dealer Rupert Wace Ancient Art from London sold a Roman bronze statuette of Aphrodite wearing a silver diadem from the 1st century AD to a French private museum. Other purchases included two pieces bought by German and American institutions from Julius Böhler of Starnberg and Renaissance cutlery, sold to an American museum by Kunstkammer Georg Laue of Munich.