Gemeentemuseum purchases long lost painting by Matthijs Maris
TEFAF 2014:
Sales Swift, Confidence High at the Mother of All Art Fairs
MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands - More than 10,000 VIPs made their way to the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) on Thursday. Artists Anish Kapoor and Georg Baselitz, Frieze Art Fair co-director Matthew Slotover and Frieze Masters director Victoria Siddall, as well as Alexander Pechtold, leader of the Netherlands’ Democrats 66 party, and Dutch designer Jan Taminiau, were among the crowd sipping champagne as they browsed art, design, and jewelry collectively worth an estimated €4 billion.
The country’s second most important art museum, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, was among the first to announce a purchase: a small landscape painting, View of Lausanne (circa 1870), by the Dutch painter Matthijs Maris. The piece was bought from the London and Amsterdam-based dealer Douwes Fine Art.
“Nobody knew where it was, and I found it here, at TEFAF,” the Gemeentemuseum’s director Benno Tempel, told artnet News, beaming. “I’m still a bit shaky.” He declined to reveal the selling price, but boasted about the quality of the piece, which had been in a European collection for 80 years.
Tempel’s find, and his enthusiasm, characterize much of the spirit of this 2014 edition, which is open until March 23. It gathers 274 exhibitors—a record—and over 30,000 objects, including several major pieces fresh to the market. Every item has passed a stringent vetting process.
Source: Coline Milliard, Friday, March 14, 2014, artnet news
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