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A tale of two cities unveils two masterpieces in one and pure gold in the other
FABRIZIO Moretti currently holds two very different exhibitions in his New York and London galleries, and in different ways both are a bold move. Until June 7 at their sixth annual exhibition of ...
Munch back in Manhattan with reminders of his Berlin years
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1964) is best known for his disturbing and iconic image ‘The Scream’, one of the most instantly recognisable artworks ever and in the news last year when in May ...
Out of Africa for a rare Sunday treat
SHOWING until July 6 at Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East 57th Street, New York, is ‘Grace: Elisabeth Sunday’, a beautiful and compelling exhibition of 30 limited edition platinum prints by the worl...
Design on the waterfront at New York launch
NEW York has a new design fair and there seems to be a deal of excitement surrounding the inaugural Collective, which will be held from May 8 to 11 at Hudson River Park’s Pier 57 near the ultra-hip...
High Society glam and glitz set to light up Kensington Gardens
PROBABLY the most iconic and glamorous society jewellery designer of the 1960s and 1970s, the late Andrew Grima included Jackie Onassis, Estee Lauder, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon among his c...
Maastricht again proves it is not just a class act but increasingly in a class of its own
WHEN TEFAF Maastricht closed on March 24 suffice to say that at a time of extreme economic woes it proved a triumph and, as it does year by year, again put itself way ahead of all others as the wor...
Bumper sales at Masterpiece help Mallett climb back into the black
TOP Mayfair antiques dealers Mallett continue their climb back to profitability as chairman Lord Daresbury announced improved figures for 2012 with a loss before tax of £0.1m on an unchanged group ...
Early Sales indicate that despite gloom outside the Maastricht magic is still as potent as ever
FIRST impressions of what turned out to be the most enjoyable Maastricht preview for some time was that the fair looked markedly better than past years, more light, airy and overall better presente...
Trinity mark their Maastricht launch with one man at the helm
LITTLE wonder art dealer Steven Beale looked pleased at his stand, Trinity House Paintings, at TEFAF Showcase, the one-off shop window for young dealers at Maastricht which gives a flavour of showi...
Cork Street gallery defies the developers and move up to a new Mayfair address
THIS is turning out to be quite a year, if a busy one, for Cork Street, Mayfair 20th century and contemporary art dealers Waterhouse & Dodd. Regulars at Maastricht, they come to TEFAF after ...
Haunch of Venison quit the fair but bow out of business with a last hurrah at Maastricht
AS you enter this month’s TEFAF Maastrict you will be greeted by an installation impossible to ignore, a huge colourful sculpture entitled Mary Poppins by the Portuguese contemporary artist Joana ...
New York on Song for its annual Asia Week
COINCIDING exactly with Maastricht is another event which gets serious international attention and that is the increasingly vibrant Asia Week New York which officially runs from March 15 to 23, alt...
PAD Paris emphasises the tribal element in its annual display of 20th century design
OVER the past six years Paris organiser Patrick Perrin has made an increasing impact on the London autumn fairs scene with his chic and stylish Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD) in Berkeley Square...
New York’s Upper East Side proudly presents the best dog show in town
WHILE many think the British love of their dogs borders on the eccentric, we are not the only nation nuts about man’s best friend. I have seen pampered pooches sitting at table in smart Paris rest...
Historic carpet designed for Notre Dame takes the floor at Maastricht
THOSE with even the remotest interest in art and antiques are aware that the world’s greatest fair in the field, TEFAF Maastricht, will be held in the Dutch city next month. There is no question o...
Moretti Fine Art at TEFAF Maastricht
An extraordinarily rare 14th century panel by a follower of Giotto (c.1270-1337) is among the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Italian paintings and works of art to be shown by Moretti Fine Art at T...
A contemporary focus on the most ancient Tibetan traditions
WITH their distinctive blending of Classical and contemporary Asian, particularly Himalayan art Rossi & Rossi have been leading London dealers for years. With her classical background Anna Mar...
Roman mosaic mask takes centre stage on antiquities stand
A criticism of the Winter Antiques Show, admittedly often by non-Americans, is that it has too much Americana. However, it has always been strong on this peculiarly folksy field and judging by the ...
English china takes the floor in a Bohemian ballroom
LAUNCHED in 2000 by California-based specialist fairs organisers Caskey Lees, the first event up in Manhattan’s Winter Antiques Week is still the favourite of many collectors, The New York Ceramic...
Rare Gothic chair illuminates winter in New York
LAST month I mentioned that in late January much international attention in the art world will be focused on New York and especially the month’s pivotal event in that city, the 59th Winter Antique...
Brafa’13 – The power of 10!
Tour & Taxis - from 19th to 27th January 2013www.brafa.be   One hundred and twenty-eight exhibitors from twelve countries, around twenty specialist areas spanning several millennia of ar...
Dutch Delft collection unmatched by Dutch museums goes on sale at Park Avenue Armory
AS I say elsewhere the hub of next month’s hectic New York antiques schedule is the 59th Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory from January 25 to February 3.  For many years this has...
Celebrated Mexican photographer brings Che and street children to his New York debut
TIMED to coincide with their participation in the Winter Antiques Show, from January 10 to March 3 Throckmorton Fine Art, who for 25 years have championed Latin American artists and are still the o...
Drawing discerning art lovers to a busy month in New York
WITH the exception of Art Basel Miami early in the month, and numerous selling exhibitions with an eye on the Christmas gift market, December is when the international trade winds down before the a...
Mysteries of hidden Rome in focus at Islington fair and Bond Street exhibition
JANUARY will be a busy time for The Fine Art Society. They are at the Winter Antiques Show in New York late in the month and from January 16 to 20 stand at The London Art Fair in Islington where th...
Showcased dealers can make the jump from a one-off guest appearance to a permanent place at the table
INITIATED in 2008, TEFAF Showcase is now an established feature of Maastricht, and since it is (almost) every dealer’s dream to participate in the world’s top fair it was laudable to give recently ...
Leading London dealer in the field a major backer of RA’s British landscape show
Among the London luminaries taking part in Master Drawings New York is Clifford Street, Mayfair dealer Lowell Libson, who is also on the organising committee of Master Drawings London. Mr Libson (...
Florida showman and Parisian grandee get it together on the Miami waterfront
THERE can be few more unlikely partners in the fairs world than the flamboyant, fast-talking Floridian organiser David Lester and the urbane, supremely well-connected Parisian Christian Deydier, Pr...
Biscuit: Refined Chinese Famille Verte Wares, exhibiting at Jorge Welsh gallery, Lisbon, 17 November – 8 December, 2012
An important group of famille verte biscuit wares will be exhibited by Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain and Works of Art, from the 17th of November to the 8th of December, 2012 at Jorge Welsh galler...
An Irish first in New York which is sure of a silver lining
WHAT is believed to be the first major selling exhibition of Irish silver to be held in New York opens on October 24 at O’Sullivan Antiques at 51 East 10th Street. ‘Ireland’s Silver Lining, Irish Si...
Art of the ancient world is on a Swiss roll
ANTIQUITIES are one of the hot areas of the market as more and more collectors recognise the academic, aesthetic and purely decorative appeal of items from the world’s oldest cultures. Switzerland...
The London duo who brought vetting to America stage the flagship fair where it all began
FOCUSED on the Biennale, September saw the international art world turning to Paris, then in early October with Frieze Week the action moved to London, but later in October it is New York which ta...
Eskenazi again poised to be Qing of London Asian festival
FROM November 1 to 10 the international market for Asian works of art will be firmly centred on the UK where for the 15th year Asian Art in London will be celebrated by the trade, auction houses and ...
In their contemporary way Frieze have mastered the art of the past
FOR the past ten years I have been out of the country at the time of the Frieze art fair in Regents Park so this year was the first time I have seen what is truly an art world sensation. I visite...
Dedicated fashionistas can feast on a century of haute couture at Upper East Side gallery
GLAMOUR and fashion are the hallmarks of New York Fashion Week and to celebrate that fashionfest Trinity House Paintings and Bernheimer Fine Art Photography are collaborating on an exhibition ‘Beau...
Park Avenue bursts with Parisian style at new fair
VETERAN New York organiser Sanford Smith has teamed up with France’s Syndicat Nationale des Antiquaires to launch a new art and design fair at the Park Avenue Armory. The Salon: Art & Design ru...
From pride of place in a Florentine palace to pride of place at the Grand Palais
AS with so many fairs much publicity for the Paris Biennale, which runs from September 14 to 23, has emphasised what are considered the sexier items on the market, like 20th century design and tribal...
Pad London set to woo international style set with a raft of new exhibitors
MORE next month, but here is a taster for the Pavilion of Art and Design, which moves into the LAPADA marquee on Berkeley Square from October 10 to 14. With some 60 carefully chosen exhibitors this ...
The best of British art comes back home to the Royal College
WHILE international attention will be focused on Paris this month one very British fair is worth noting, the 20/21 British Art Fair which celebrates its 25th anniversary from September 12 to 16 at th...
Dealers devastated after an anchor of New York Asia Week bows out
NEW York’s March Asia Week has suffered a severe setback with the announcement that New York Arts of Pacific Asia, a fair launched in 1995 by Californian organisers Caskey Lees and an anchor of Asia ...
A pair of Japanese screens in their own show will rock Asian Art in London
MUCH of the art world takes a sabbatical in August until the trade gets back into gear in September, but looking further ahead here is an early taster of something to relish at Asian Art in London in...
Roll away the Stones and see if an accomplished artist emerges
ROLLING Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has long been a megastar in the rock world but he has now reached star status in the art world and, as the Stones celebrate 50 years of rock n’ roll, Symbolic Col...
Mineralogist to the court of Saxony holds court on Paris’s Left Bank
ALL top international fairs spur dealers in the host city to mount exhibitions and one not to miss at Biennale time is ‘Luxury, Taste, Science: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court’ at Galerie ...
MasterArt Directory enthusiastically greeted at Masterpiece London and the Hermitage Benefactors Gala Evening in Saint Petersburg
Genuine enthusiasm best sums up the reaction received for MasterArt’s first edition of its print Directory, distributed at the Masterpiece London private preview on June 26th. The artistically design...
ST. JAMES’S modern art gallery celebrate their ruby anniversary with a Manhattan reunion
DUKE Street, St. James’s, London specialists in 20th century works Whitford Fine Art celebrate 40 years in business this year and mark the anniversary with a return to New York in October. After a ...
SLOVENIAN Playboy artist makes his New York debut
WELL known in Europe and widely exhibited in his native Slovenia, Boris Selan makes his New York debut this month in a show ‘Seasonal Perspectives’ at the Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street in the u...
Far from sketchy, West End art dealers mount shows which will prove a big draw this summer
IT is not just paintings which bring curators and collectors to St. James’s and Mayfair this month, overlapping with Master Paintings Week is the longer-established Master Drawings London which wil...
Venerable Japanese screens and monumental pottery made yesterday offered in the shadow of Prince Albert
LAST month I eulogised about the dream setting of Brian and Anna Haughton’s Art Antiques London in a marquee next to the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, SW7. But as you can see when it op...
Frieze appeal may be contemporary but now it stretches back to antiquity
WHEN the Frieze contemporary art fair was launched in London’s Regent’s Park almost a decade ago it was not to everyone’s taste, but it proved a sensation and straight away became an international ...
Manhattan show proves that while some like it hot Marilyn is always the hottest
MOVIE stars come and go and although the term movie legend is bandied about a lot, few really deserve that accolade. One who unquestionably does is Marilyn Monroe for whom the word legend could hav...
Marino does not just collect bronzes, now he makes them
WORLD renowned architect and designer Peter Marino is said to have redefined modern luxury with his award-winning work for the likes of Chanel and Louis Vuitton, but in connoisseurial circles he is...
Mayfair portraits expert spots the man behind the woman in a New York saleroom
MAYFAIR historic portraits dealer and more recently television personality Philip Mould has ‘outed’ the earliest surviving portrait of a male transvetite. Apart from dealing from his Dover Street ...
Already London’s top fair Masterpiece recruits the world’s top art dealer to play a mystery role this year
FROM Maastricht to New York and Paris, cities have their annual antiques and art moments and traditionally in June the focus is on London. I have mentioned there are three major London summer fai...
Sometimes opening the shop every morning means crossing continents
I note that Moretti Fine Art have their fifth exhibition of Italian Old Masters at their gallery on East 80th Street in New York until May 25, but then I see they move ‘Seicento Fiorentino: Sacred...
Haughtons return with a gold standard fair for serious collectors in a dream setting in Kensington Gardens
ALTHOUGH London-based, Brian and Anna Haughton really established their international reputation as top organisers with their New York fairs. They introduced strict vetting to the Manhattan fairs...
Moretti Fine Art: Seicento Fiorentino: Sacred and Profane Allegories - 1 to 25 May, New York
Moretti Fine Art will stage their fifth exhibition of Italian Old Masters, SEICENTO FIORENTINO: Sacred and Profane Allegories at the New York gallery at 24 East 80th Street from 1 to 25 May 2012.&nbs...
Three decades in the business are brought to book
MANHATTAN-based, Dutch-born Old Masters specialist Bob Haboldt celebrates his 30 years in the business in some style at the end of this month with the publication of Singular Vision. Haboldt & Co...
French national treasure sets up shop in Greenwich Village
ANOTHER New York business which has expanded during the recession is Maison Gerard at 43 East 10th Street in Greenwich Village. Known internationally as the epitome of stylish French Deco and design...
TAMBARAN beats the drum for tribal art with a new American showcase
WITH a committed following tribal art is one of the hot areas of the international market, but it is a limited, defined market and as such unpredictable. Take the case of its fortunes in the United ...
Leading New York art dealer bucks the economic trend with two new five-storey spaces
TIMES may be tough but, as has been often said, when the going gets tough the tough get going. Very much the case with New York dealer David Zwirner, 47 and considered one of the most powerful playe...
Asian art dealers who wish they could be in two places at the same time
AFTER a stunningly successful Maastricht the only words of regret I heard this year came from some of the dealers in Oriental works who very much wished the fair did not coincide exactly with Asia We...
Monumental sculpture provides the finishing touch to luxury property development
COMMERCIAL concerns are well aware of the kudos and potential profitability of commissioning works of art and London property developers Northacre and Minerva certainly have enhanced the market profi...
A reshuffle in the boardroom as the chairman steps down to take on a more creative role at Masterpiece
SPECTACULAR, ultra-smart London fair Masterpiece may have established itself as the UK’s premier art and antiques attraction, and indeed attained world-ranking status in just two stagings but far fro...
Noted academic and dealer in medieval manuscripts opens a New York space in addition to her Paris gallery
AS if she is not already busy enough, noted Medievalist Dr. Sandra Hindman, owner of Les Enluminures, is expanding and in May opens a penthouse gallery in a townhouse at 23 East 73rd Street, just off...
The rise and rise of Yorkshire’s Tomasso Brothers as they bring their sculpture to Maastricht
OVER the past five years Yorkshire-born and based European sculpture specialists Tomasso Brothers Fine Art have increasingly upped their profile culminating this month with their first TEFAF Maastric...
Asia Week New York
UNFORTUNATELY coinciding with Maastricht but well worth a visit if you can manage it, is Asia Week New York from March 16 to 24, a collaborative Asiafest involving dealers, five auction houses and 17...
Winners of annual grants from the new TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund
THE first winners of annual grants from the new TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund are the Denver Art Museum in Colorado and the Rijksmusem, Amsterdam. Denver receives £26,000 to help restore a c.1736 ...
UK art trade fights back as EU extends the tax burden of Droit de Suite to include the estates of dead artists
BATTLING the worst economic turmoil in generations, to say the art trade has found it tough going is an understatement. But the burden most vexing UK dealers in modern and contemporary art is not dow...
Carlton Hobbs makes debut at TEFAF Maastricht
ONE of New York’s most respected and academic period furniture and works of art dealers Carlton Hobbs makes a long overdue debut at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht and as we have seen from his stands in...
CELEBRATING WITH THE BEST - RARE WORKS TO MARK TEFAF MAASTRICHT'S SILVER JUBILEE 16-25 March 2012
Helvoirt, 14 December 2011. Exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht will be bringing anextraordinary array of rare and beautiful works of art as The European Fine Art Faircelebrates its Silver Jubilee at the ...
TEFAF Maastricht celebrates its Silver Jubilee: 16-25 March 2012
TEFAF Maastricht will celebrate its Silver Jubilee when it opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 16 – 25 March 2012. In the 25 years since The...
The International fine art and antique dealers Show, October 21-27
Preview Party For The Society Of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Thursday Evening, October 20th 2011.  A spellbinding mix of the highest quality art and antiques is the hallmark of A...
Monet pastel to be unveiled at ‘From Constable to Cézanne | Inaugural Exhibition by Trinity House Paintings NY’
Private view 6:30-9PM October 19, 2011Exhibition October 20-27, 2011 24 East 64th Street, New York Trinity House Paintings, will unveil Claude Monet’s ‘Waterloo Bridge’ at the private view of their...
Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show 21 to 27 October 2011
Major pieces of European sculpture will be presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at this prestigious New York fair. The Tomasso brothers, Dino, Giovanni and Raffaello, are known for their passion ...
Paris Tableau 4 to 8 November 2011
At the heart of Europe, Paris is a cultural capital with an incomparableheritage, one of the major centres of the art market and the only city inthe world with such a rich and diverse market. For thi...
MANHATTAN AND MAYFAIR TRINITY HOUSE TO OPEN A NEW YORK GALLERY
Trinity House, the London-based international dealers in high quality 19th and 20th century art, are to open a gallery in New York to enable them to expand their operation in the United States. The...
MASTER DRAWINGS LONDON, 1 – 8 July 2011
After celebrating its 10th anniversary last year Master Drawings London is returning once again to Mayfair, St. James's and Bloomsbury from the 1 - 8 July 2011. Twentytwo leading drawings specialists...
Solid sales boost market confidence
Following a very strong start to TEFAF Maastricht, which takes place at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the city of Maastricht in the Southern Netherlands  between 18-2...
Pavillon des Arts et du Design – Wednesday March 30th – Sunday April 3rd 2011
With its various editions (Paris, London, New York*), the PAD (Pavilion of Art and Design) is one of the world's largest art and design fairs. In terms of its competitors, it is without a doubt ...
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