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Forty years in the art business and still adding to his stable
BELGIAN artist Joseph Lacasse (1894-1975), a pioneer of abstraction, had his last London exhibition 40 years ago at the Drian Galleries, just at the time young dealer Adrian Mibus founded Whitford ...
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...
David the big draw at Left Bank gallery show
FOR over two decades Paris has been the focus of the drawings world in early April, centred on the Salon du Dessin at the Palais de la Bourse. But the drawings week has evolved into more than jus...
Three top Paris dealers get together for a top quality street party
UNTIL May 11 in a joint venture three pre-eminent dealers in Old Master paintings, sculpture and works of art in rue du Faubourg St-Honore, Paris are collaborating to mount three exhibitions in th...
Patrice Bellanger, Eric Coatalem & Philippe Perrin are happy to announce three exhibitons of 17th and 18th century paintings, sculptures and objets d'art
Exhibitions from April 3rd to May 11th 2013 Three passionate people, one same motivation to generate buzz for a key period of art history and to offer international collectors as well as the Parisi...
Vanderven looks to the Orient as Maastricht veterans enter a new era
THIS month’s 26th staging of TEFAF Maastricht heralds a new era for a Dutch dealership which has been with the world’s top fair since the beginning as Floris van der Ven (pictured) officially takes...
Faces from the distant past look to the future as new Left Bank gallery holds its inaugural show
FROM April 5 to June 16 the Paris antiquities specialists Galerie Chenel hold their first exhibition at their new premises at 3 Quai Voltaire, and as always with Chenel it will be imaginative, top ...
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...
A masterpiece as big as the Ritz
UNDISCOVERED masterpieces often turn up in the most insalubrious places, dusty attics and forgotten storerooms are favourites, but the recent unearthing of a previously unrecorded painting by Charles...
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...
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...
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 ...
Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum among the many highlights of TEFAF Maastricht
Helvoirt, 10 December 2012. Rarely seen masterpieces from the collection of drawings at the Van Gogh Museum are to be loaned to TEFAF Maastricht for a special exhibition when the Fair that defines e...
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...
Masterpiece fixes the dates but already some of the big players have booked their place at the fair
DATES have been announced for next summer’s fourth Masterpiece London which returns to the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, SW3 from June 27 to July 3 with a glam £100 preview on June ...
Excellent feedback on MasterArt’s Directory of the World’s Leading Art and Antique Dealers
First distributed at the Masterpiece London private preview last June, followed by the Benefactors Gala at the Hermitage Palace in Saint Petersburg a few days later, the 26th Bien...
News is buzzing about MasterArt’s exclusive events
In September 2012, Prince and Princess Mourousy hosted an exclusive dinner party at their Parisian residence in honor of Prince George Yourievsky, MasterArt’s Managing Director and founder Henry Blun...
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...
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...
Old Masters star on the silver screen in Paris
WHILE we are guaranteed a feast of Old Masters from the 21 specialist exhibitors at the second Paris Tableau at the Palais de la Bourse from November 7 to 12 the founding body of 10 distinguished d...
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...
Perrin brings all his Parisian flair to his Berkeley Square fair
AT the LAPADA fair’s Berkeley Square preview there were comments that this was “the smartest fair in town”. Well, perhaps it was until Patrick Perrin’s Pavilion of Art & Design moved into the...
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...
Oceanic art expert spreads the word from the Australian outback to Hoxton Square
With the ever increasing admiration for things tribal, Oceanic art is getting its fair share of attention, but you do not see that much early Australian work on the market. So expect an eager rece...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Paris Tableau 7-12 November 2012
Building on the success of its first edition in 2011, Paris Tableau 2012 will again open its doors at the Palais de la Bourse from 7 to 12 November 2012. Paris Tableau attracted over 6,000 ...
Biennale poised to balloon to new heights with Deydier and Lagerfeld at the helm
PLENTY going on in September but you can bet all eyes will be on the XXVI Biennale des Antiquaires at the Grand Palais, Paris from September 14 to 23 to see just what Christian Deydier, President of ...
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 ...
Tribal gathering in Paris now a high spot of the city’s September art season 
INTEREST in tribal art has blossomed, as can be seen by its higher profile at this year’s Biennale. But it is even more apparent at Parcours des Mondes, the international tribal art fair to be held a...
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...
Pimlico gallery has 20th century special designs on Paris’s Left Bank
NOTED 20th century design specialists Erik Müllendorff and Philippe Rapin have not let any talk of recession or eurozone meltdown hold them back. Belgian Erik (pictured above left with his partner)...
Stylish Paris antiquities dealers turn a corner with a move to Quai Voltaire
ANOTHER grand opening on Quai Voltaire on the evening of September 12 will be the inaguration of the new 180 sq m. Galerie Chenel which after seven years on Rue de Beaune moves around the corner to ...
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...
Hong Kong organiser shows the West how it is done
WESTERN fair organisers have long tried to exploit the emerging Asian, particularly Chinese market, generally with little success. But an international fair which is going from strength to stren...
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 ...
Tribal gathering in the heart of Mayfair
Tribal art has been hot on the market for some time, and little surprise. It ticks all the right boxes in that it can be academic, sculptural or just decorative. But it is a niche market and can...
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...
Left Bank dealers show their animal side
LEFT Bank antiquities dealers Galerie Chenel always come up with entertaining exhibition ideas and just opened is ANIMAL, a veritable bestiary which runs at 6 Rue de Beaune, Paris until July 9. ...
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...
Paris Biennale set for its biggest and glitziest staging to date under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld
FRANCE may have lurched to the left with Francois Hollande’s historic trouncing of Nicolas Sarkozy, making him the first socialist President since Jacques Chirac replaced Francois Mitterand in 199...
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...
Nocturne Rive Droite - Paris
We have the pleasure to announce the date of the forthcoming Nocturne Rive Droite :   Wednesday June 6, 2012, 5 pm to 11 pm For more than fifteen years, galleries, antiques dealers and bookse...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
MasterArt will be at TEFAF! Come and visit us at stand 819 in the Business Pavilion, directly across from the Executive Lounge
Maastricht’s Silver Jubilee: 25 years of unsurpassed choice of the best in fine art. This year’s fair, from 16th to 25th March, is sure to be a truly exceptional one, exhibiting genuine masterpieces ...
Two very different displays of artistic genius will be part of TEFAF's Silver Jubilee celebrations
TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s finest art and antiques fair, has always insisted on exhibiting only the best. Two very different displays of artistic genius will be part of The European Fine Art Fair’...
BRAFA’12, the arts gathering at the heart of Brussels
From 21st to 29th January 2012, at Tour & Taxis (www.brafa.be) Across 9 days, 122 exhibitors will represent 11 countries in over 14,000 square metres of exhibition area; thousands of exhibits, a...
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...
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...
Daniel Katz to exhibit at Masterpiece 2011
Daniel Katz has been dealing in European sculpture since 1968 and is renowned for handling only the best. He blends the expertise of a connoisseur with the passion of a collector. He is p...
Bernheimer-Colnaghi to exhibit at Masterpiece London 2011
Old Masters Meet Contemporary Photographers  Bernheimer-Colnaghi will show the unusual combination of Old Master paintings and contemporary photographs at the second staging of Masterpiece Lon...
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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