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New
Design, an Exhibition of Paintings from
Detroit Institute of Art and The Sound of Music at Maastricht's TEFAF
2005 The jubilee performance on three antique Amati violins at
TEFAF Maastricht is having a contagious effect on art and antique
dealers. A whole range of objects connected to music in one way or
another will be brought to this year’s fair. Paintings and sculptures
with musical subjects will be most in evidence, and there will also be
original musical instruments. The result will provide a fascinating look
at twenty-five centuries of music in the art of different cultures. The
oldest objects date from classical antiquity. Galerie Rhéa (Zurich) has
a sixth-century BC Athenian krater (a bowl in which wine was mixed with
water) decorated with a design depicting three standing musicians
playing the lyre at a banquet. One of them is using a plectrum to pluck
the strings. Jean-David Cahn (Basel) is showing a pair of Roman bronze
mouthpieces for a trumpet.
Amati Violins and Jubilee Concert This year TEFAF has something for music-lovers. Three extremely rare violins by Andrea Amati, teacher of Antonius Stradivarius, from the museum of Cremona, Amati’s birthplace, will be on display at TEFAF. To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Amati’s birth, a unique jubilee concert with original Amati instruments from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries will be held on Sunday March 6 in the Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht. Eighteen musicians from Europe and America, including cellist Gary Hoggmann and bassist Gary Karr, will come together for this special concert. The oldest violin, which dates from 1566, will be played by Gil Sharon, artistic director of the Maastricht Amati Ensemble and organizer of the concert. Venue: Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Sunday March 6, 8.00 pm. Tel: +31 (0)43 350 5555. Concert
at TEFAF, Monday March To
mark the Amati jubilee festival, the Amati String Trio will be
performing Beethoven’s Serenade opus 8 for violin at TEFAF on Monday 7
March, followed by the University of Saskatchewan Amati String Quartet
playing The Lark by Haydn. The concert begins at 5 p.m. in the Westhal
(the large catering plaza) and lasts for one hour. Admission is free to
visitors to TEFAF, but the number of seats is limited. Original
musical instruments are to be found on the stands of three English
antique dealers. Mallett & Son (London) are selling a spinet—a
smaller variant of the harpsichord—that was made by Francis Coston in
about 1710. Pelham Galleries (London) - whose director Alan Rubin plays
his harpsichord at every TEFAF - also have a spinet for sale. This
instrument was built around 1770 by Wilson Whitby, an instrument-maker
who was unknown until recently. They also have a Louis XVI harp by the
French harp-maker Holtzman. Harris Lindsay (London) is bringing two
nineteenth-century serpents. The serpent, a wind instrument reminiscent
of the cornet which was invented at the end of the sixteenth century,
owes its name to its shape—it resembles a coiled snake. The serpent
harmonizes perfectly with the human voice and was consequently widely
used by church choirs. Galerie
Meyer-Oceanic Art (Paris),
specialist in oceanic art, has various
instruments from the islands of the Pacific. They include a
65-centimetre long bamboo flute decorated with stylized ancestral
figures. The flute was made by the Tolai people of the Bismarck
Archipelago and was brought back by a Belgian missionary before the
Second World War.
Angela
Gräfin von Wallwitz (Munich) is showing a unique majolica handle from a
drum major’s baton. It is a mere 9 centimeters (3.5 inches) long,
decorated with a delicate pattern of blue and white scrollwork, and
dates from the mid sixteenth century. It was probably made in either
Faenza or Venice. The
art dealers Stoppenbach & Delestre (London) are showing a painting
by François Bonvin of a young man industriously practising on his
violin. The scene, the mood and the clarity of this work by the
nineteenth-century painter are reminiscent of genre pieces by the Dutch
old masters. Art dealer Pieter de Boer (Amsterdam) has a work by Judith
Leyster (1609-1660) depicting two violin players by a table bearing
objects that allude to the transience of the sounds they make and of
life itself. Musical
instruments were also the specialty of the seventeenth-century Italian
Evaristo Baschenis. As a painter and musician he collected numerous
instruments from which to construct his compositions. He was
particularly fond of the rounded and curved shapes of the lute and the
violin, as we can see in the still life being shown by Cesare Lampronti
(Rome). Baschenis influenced Christofori Munari. In the latter’s still
life with porcelain, glass and fruit, a cello occupies the most
prominent place. The work can be seen on the stand of Di Robilant-Voena
(London-Milan). Among
the most fascinating musical illustrations are those in medieval
miniatures. Dr Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Hamburg) is showing some
stunning illuminated graduals (books of antiphons) and individual
miniatures from the spectacular Robert Lehman collection, which he is
selling at TEFAF. Until recently this private collection was on loan to
the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The pieces include a French
miniature dating from 1300 depicting four singing monks, grouped around
a lectern on which lies just such a large gradual. New
exhibitors Acquavella
Galleries (New York), one of the world’s leading art galleries for
classical modern and contemporary European and American art, is
returning to TEFAF after a three-year absence. Seven European art and
antique dealers are taking part for the first time this year - H.
Blairmans & Sons (London), applied art in nineteenth-century
neo-styles; Bulgari (Rome), la Haute Joaillerie du Monde; Galerie
Karsten Greve (Cologne), twentieth-century fine art; Amedeo Montanari
(Paris), antique frames from the fifteen to the twentieth century from
France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, and specially commissioned
frames; Segoura Antiquaires (Paris), eighteenth-century French furniture
and objets d’art and French paintings of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries; Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz (Paris), antique French
wall paintings from the late eighteenth century through to art deco;
Rupert Wace Ancient Art (London), objects from Egypt, classical
antiquity and the Near East. TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s leading art fair, which last year attracted 75,000 visitors, will be held from March 4 – 13, 2005 at the MECC Exhibition Center in Maastricht, the Netherlands. New
Fair Design The
2005 Fair will have a dramatic new look. Fair architect Tom Postma of Amsterdam has been joined by British
exhibition designer, David Bentheim of London to create a stand design
that is classic, timeless and elegant, providing the perfect backdrop
for the art and antiques at the Fair. Inspired by the black and white tiled floors in Vermeer’s
paintings, Bentheim has opted for a modern interpretation in the form of
strips of floor covering in various shades of grey. Specially designed leather seats will provide visitors with
places to rest throughout the Fair. Panels in the foyer will give visitors a foretaste of the
treasures within the Fair. Detroit
Institute of Art Exhibition The
Detroit Institute of Art is renowned for its collection of Old Masters.
Due to a renovation at the Museum, TEFAF has the unique opportunity to
display thirty-five masterpieces from the collection including works by
Rubens, Frans Hals, Tiepolo, Jordaens, de Hooch and Poussin. There will also be 16th, 17th and 18th
-century sculpture from the Italian Renaissance, including pieces by
Girolama Campagna, Antonio Susini and Hubert Gerhard, and the Baroque
sculptor Lorenzo Bernini, as well as work by the 18th
-century German modeler, Johann Kändler, best known for his Meissen
figures.
Works
of art on offer at TEFAF 2005 Paintings and Drawings Bernheimer-Colnaghi,
London/Munich, is bringing Diana
Resting after the Hunt with Shepherdesses and Greyhounds, by Gerrit van Honthorst.
This
grand mythological painting was first recorded in the 1632 inventory of
the Stadholder’s Quarters and the House in Noordeinde. The painting was probably commissioned by the stadholder,
Frederik Henry (1598-1647), Prince of Orange, an important collector and
patron of the arts. Johnny
van Haeften, London, will be bringing a portrait of Elizabeth,
daughter of Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) painted by her father. The portrait
shows a vivacious young woman wearing a straw hat and carrying a basket. Moretti,
a Florentine art dealer specializing in early Italian painting, shows
a mid- 15th-century Madonna and
Child, flanked by Two Angels by the Sienese painter Sano di Pietro,
who has sometimes been compared to Fra Angelico. Noortman
Master Paintings, Maastricht, will be showing an unusual Trompe l’oeil by Peter van Roestraten (1630-1700), court painter
to King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. The painting is an
allegory of idleness, the brevity of human life and the artist’s
success. A medal bearing a portrait of Charles II is an amusing inclusion
by the painter, who was forbidden to paint a portrait of the King. Furniture and Objets d’Art Angela
Gräfin von Wallwitz Kunsthandel, Munich, is showing a traveling case
in the ‘English style,’ made around 1775 in Saxony or Thuringia.
The fine mahogany case was probably made by a pupil of the
great furniture-maker David Roentgen. The interior contains a Meissen
porcelain tea and coffee service, a porcelain tray, silver cutlery,
shaving utensils, and writing accessories. The porcelain is painted by Joh.G.Loehnig (1743-1806) after
Boucher. Altomani
& Sons, Milan, will show a table top, dated 1684, inlaid with
marble and lapis lazuli, which is both historically and artistically
important. The table top commemorates the historical victory of the Holy
League over the Turkish Armies in Vienna in 1683 and contains the
Austro-Hungarian Imperial coat of arms and Poland’s Royal eagle. Antiquities Modern
Art Jablonka
Galerie, Cologne, will show a large painted chrome steel sculpture French
Luck by American artist, John Chamberlain. Galerie
Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, is showing Portrait
of Rose Masson, the artist’s wife, dating from 1944-45 by André
Masson (1896-1987), one of the most skilful exponents of Surrealism. In
the early 1940s Masson went to the United States, where he derived immense
artistic inspiration from the freedom and grandeur of the country. This is
expressed in the dynamism of his American paintings, which he considered
to be among his best works. Art
Market Study In February 2005, TEFAF will be publishing a new art market study. The study will examine the implications of the introduction of Droit de Suite, the artists’ resale right on modern and contemporary art. This legislation has already been introduced in most EU countries and the directive takes effect in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 2006. Droit de Suite is intended to pay royalties to artists or their heirs up to seventy years after the death of the artist. The report takes a critical look at the impact of this directive on artists, the art trade and private buyers and sellers. Organizational
changes TEFAF is organized by The European Fine Art Foundation. This body has a Board of Trustees and an Executive Committee. There have been a number of changes of members in both. On the Executive Committee, Konrad Bernheimer succeeds Richard Knight as chair of the Paintings, Drawings & Prints section. Knight remains a member of the Board of Trustees. Vice-chair Johnny van Haeften is stepping down to be replaced by Rob Noortman. Van Haeften remains a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees. James Roundell represents the Modern Art section on the Executive Committee, taking over from Leslie Waddington. Jan Dirven, for years a member of both the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of TEFAF and one of the founders, has retired. Michel Witmer, art historian and art consultant in the United States, joins the Board of Trustees. We wish to extend our gratitude to the Netherlands Board of Tourism and the press office of TEFAF 2005 for providing this information. For further information we recommend that you consult TEFAF 2005 on line by following this link /// |
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