By PAUL LASTER, MAR. 2014
Every spring for the past 27 years, The European Fine Art Fair—popularly known as TEFAF—has taken the charming, medieval city of Maastricht by—if not storm—then a certain type of established taste. This year, 275 exhibitors from 20 countries offered antiques, tribal arts, rare books and manuscripts, maps, jewelry, Old Master paintings and sculptures, modern and contemporary art, photography, crafts, and design—the whole gamut of cultural artifacts. More than 10,000 connoisseurs—and an international mix of curators, collectors, and dealers—attended opening day and turned the nine-hour reception into a feast for the body, and a water-cooler for interested parties seeking an available Rubens, Rembrandt, or Van Gogh.
AXA Art CEO Christiane Fischer with Robert Indiana's LOVE
Antwerp gallerist Alex Vervoodt and Gutai artist Tsuyoshi Maekawa
TEFAF Board President Baron and Baroness Willem van Dedem
London gallerist Ben Brown with a new Frank Stella
New York gallerist Christophe Van de Weghe with Richard Prince and Calder
Paul Kasmin Gallery director Clara Ha with Warhol's portrait of Sydney Janis
Collectors Carl Christian Aegidius and Marieke Sanders, Janne Aegidius and Pieter Sanders with Amsterdam gallerist Ron Mandos
(center) with Christopher Wool
London and Hong Kong gallerist Fabio Rossi
Brussels gallerist Flore de Brantes seated on a Pablo Reinoso
London gallerist Gerard Faggionato with Boetti
London gallerist James Mayor with Gunther Uecker
Artist Jan Worst with his painting at Ben Brown Fine Arts
Urban strategist Kai van Hasselt and Rijksmuseum developmental funds manager Meike Le Coultre
Old Masters dealer Konrad Bernheimer
Parisian design dealer Francois Laffanour
New York gallerist Lawrence Luhring and writer Lucrecia Zappi
TEFAF's American Ambassador Michel Witmer
Michiel and Mary Alice van der Wal with their newborn with Dubuffet
Collector and Wolfsonian founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. with Pistoletto
Brussels gallerist Paolo Vedovi with Richter and Calder
New York gallerist Paul Kasmin with Hantai and Les Lalanne
London antiquities dealer Raffaello Tomasso with Hirst
New York Old Masters dealer Richard Feigen with Bacon
London gallerist Richard Nagy with Christian Schad
Montreal gallerist Robert Landau with Dubuffet
Rotterdam's Galerie Vivid co-founders Saskia Copper and Aad Krol
London gallerist Simon Dickinson with Van Gogh
Michael Goedhuis director Sophie Kempson with Qui Deshu and Xie Aige
Bonnefanten Museum director Stijne Huijts with Basquiat
Paris and Salzburg Gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac
London's Hamiltons Gallery co-founder Tim Jefferies with Irving Penn
New York gallerist Tina Kim with Anish Kapoor
TEFAF designer Tom Postma
Artscribes Judd Tully, Carol Vogel, and Scott Reyburn
Sperone Westwater director Walter Biggs
Artist Wim Delvoye and art advisor Victoria Golembiovskaya
Paul Laster
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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