Gisteren opende de TEFAF haar deuren. Net als andere jaren bevindt het epicentrum van de internationale kunsthandel zich even in Maastricht. Tsja, hoe zou het anders kunnen zijn dan dat dat niet de moeite waard is?
Nu draai ik misschien nog geen decenia mee, maar toch is de Tefaf voor mij de beste kunstbeurs. Het enige nadeel is dat de actuele en hedendaagse kunst minimaal vertegenwoordigd is. Maar bij binnenkomst merk je direct dat alles tot in de puntjes verzorgt is. Dat doet de Frieze (in hun tenten) ze niet na, Basel (waar het toch iets archaischer aandoet) ook niet.

TEFAF entree
De kwaliteit mag er ook zijn, museaal werk genoeg. Toch zijn het voor mij altijd die onbekendere B-kantjes van die bekende kunstenaars, of de B-kunstenaars die je niet alle dagen tegenkomt in musea die zo’n beurs als deze zo interessant maakt.
Opmerkelijke tendens van dit jaar is het verdwijnen van de wansmakelijkheden, de kitsch die de afgelopen edities met enige regelmaat de kop op stak is afwezig of kunsthistorisch verantwoord. Verder viel op dat de hoeveelheid Renoirs en Calders aan het afnemen is, en dat Magrittes veel vaker aangeboden werden.
Hier een beeldverslag van werken die om diverse redenen opvielen. Grotere versies van de afbeeldingen krijg je door er op te klikken, in sommige gevallen niet overbodig.

Albricht – Abraham Hulk

Albricht – Bart van der Leck

Amells – Jan Weenix

Arnoldi Livie – Balthus

Arnoldi Livie – Edgar Degas

Aronson – Majolica grote schotel, circa 1630

Aronson – Polychrome plakaten (tweemaal) circa 1760

Arthur Ramon Art – Sean Scully

Artur Ramon Art – Salvador Dali

Aveline & Quenetain – Lamp

Bastian Galerie – Damien Hirst

Bastian Gallery – Andy Warhol

Beck & Eggeling – Heinz Mack

Ben Brown Fine Arts – Lucio Fontana

Beres Galerie – Simon Hantai

Bies Kunsthandel – Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Bies kunsthandel – Johannes Jaccobus Maria Bogaerts

Blumka Gallery & Julius Bohler – Georg Petel

Borzo – Anne Appleby

Borzo – Ger van Elk

Borzo – Jan Hendrikse

Brame & Lorenceau – Victor Brauner

Canesso Galerie – Luca Giordano

Cardi Gallery – Giulio Paolini

Cardi Gallery – Tony Cragg

Carlo Orisi – Sirio Tofanari

Caylus – Juan Rodriguez Juarez

Cohen & Cohen – Porseleinen hertjes, circa 1750 (Qianlong periode)

Daniel Blau – NASA Orbiter 5

Daphne Alazraki – Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Daphne Alazraki – Pierre-August Renoir

David Koetser Gallery – Jan Willemszoon van der Wilde

Day & Faber – Roy Turner Durrant

De Jonckheere – Lucas Cranach de Oude

Delaive Gallery – Yuina Wada

Derek Johns Ltd – Dirk Valkenburg

Dickinson – Jean-Michel Basquiat

Dickinson – Kees van Dongen

Dickinson – Rene Magritte

Dickinson – Vincent van Gogh

Douwes Fine Art – Geer van Velde

Dr Jorn Gunther Rare Books – 13 Boeken uit de Pillone bibliotheek, beschilderd door Cesare Vecellio

Dr Jorn Gunther Rare Books – Getijenboek, circa 1415-1420 Troyes

EH Ariens Kappers – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

Emanuel von Baeyer – Arshille Gorky

Entwistle – Onbekend voorwerp

Eric Coatalem Galerie – Theodore Gericault

Flore de Brantes – Wim Delvoye

Franch & Company – James Ward

Galerie 1492 – Onbekend voorwerp

Giacometti Old Master Paintings – Aurelio Lomi Gentileschi

Grassi Studio – Tintoretto

Hammer Galleries – Pablo Picasso

Hans Mayer – Nam June Paik

Hans P Kraus Jr inc – Guilaume Duchenne de Boulogne & Adrien Tournachon

Helmut H Rumbler Kunsthandlung – Andrea Mantegna

Helmut H Rumbler Kunsthandlung – Hendrick Goltzius

Henze & Ketterer galerie – George Grosz

Heribert Tenschert Manuscripts – Getijenboek omstreeks 1505-1520 Parijs

Hidde van Seggelen – Suchan Kinoshita

Hopkins galerie – Gustave Moureau

Hopkins Galerie – Max Ernst

Ivo Bouwman Kunsthandel – Dick Ket

J Kugel – Onbekend voorwerp

Jack Kilgore – Antonio Mancini

Jack Kilgore – Gustav Adolphe Mossa

Jack Kilgore – Herbert Thomas Dicksee

Jacques de la Beraudier Galerie – Victor Brauner

Jaime Eguiguren – Mexico, 17e eeuw

James Butterwick – David Yakerson

Jan Morsink Ikonen – Russisch circa 1550 (Sint Nikolaas)

Jaski Gallery – Alechinsky

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd – Antonio Tempesta

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd – Paul Gaugain

Johannes Faber Galerie – August Sander

Johannes Faber Galerie – Man Ray

Johnny van Haeften – Jan van Kessel de Oude

Johnny van Haeften – Volger Rogier van der Weyden

K Galleri – Thomas Demand

Karsten Greve Galerie – Cy Twombly

Karsten Greve Galerie – Lucio Fontana

Keitelman Gallery – Marc Chagal

Keitelman Gallery – Marcel Duchamp

Keitelman Gallery – Rene Magritte

Konrad Fischer Galerie – Wolfgang Laib

Kukje Gallery – Jean-Michel Basquiat

Kukje Gallery – Lee Ufan

Longari Arte – Paar obelisken, laat 17e eeuw

Lowell Libson Ltd – William Blake

Ludorff Galerie – Kathe Kolwitz

Maas Gallery – Charles Wilson Collins

Maas Gallery – Dante Gabriel Charles Rossetti

Marlborough – Joe Tilson

Marlborough – Manolo Valdes

Marlborough – Piet Mondriaan

Moretti – Scultuur omstreeks 1240-1260 centraal Italie

Obermatt Galerie – Alberto Giacometti

Obermatt Galerie – Rene Magritte

Onbekende galerie – George Owen Wynne Apperley

Onbekende Galerie – Rene Magritte

Osborne Samuel Modern & Contemporary Art – Henry Moore

Patrice Trigano – David Salle

Patrice Trigano Galerie – Mel Ramos

Paul Kasmin Gallery – Arman

Paul Kasmin Gallery – Frank Stella

Rafael Valls Limited – Werkplaats van Joseph Plepp

Richard Nagy – Otto Dix

Rob Smeets – Alessandro Magnasco

Robbig – Kandelaren, circa 1740

Robilant & Voena – Andy Warhol

Salomon Lilian – Anoniem uit de Nederlanden, na 1567

Salomon Lilian – Clara Peeters

Sam Fogg – Pedro Zuera

Stair Sainty Gallery – Adolf Hiremy-Hischl

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art – Claude Monet

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art – Eliot Hodgkin

Stoppenbach & Delestre – Henri le Sidaner

Stoppenbach & Delestre – Louis Valtat

Sur Galeria – Julio le Parc

Talabardon & Gautier – Marice Denis

Talabardon & Gautier – Piat-Joseph Sauvage

Talabardon & Gautier – Victor Hugo

The Mayor Gallery – Elias Crespin

The Mayor Gallery – Francois Morellet

Thomas Gibson Fine Art – Lucian Freud

Tornabouni Arte – Morandi

Toth Ikonen – Russisch Icoon, eind 17e eeuw (Ween niet om mij moeder)

Utermann Galerie – Christian Rohlfs

Van de Weghe Fine Art – Donald Judd

Van de Weghe Fine Art – Duane Hanson

Vanderven Oriental Art – Sancai Zhenmushou

Vanderven Oriental Art – Sancai Zhenmushou

Von Vertes Galerie – Max Ernst

William Weston Gallery – Roy Lichtenstein

Zeno X Gallery – Mark Manders
De TEFAF is nog tot en met de 22e te bezoeken, entree is €40,- maar dan heb je ook wat.
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Bedankt. Vooral voor de Scully
@Leendert, graag gedaan. (En inderdaad, super mooie Scully enigszins verdwaalt bij de tekeningen afdeeling)
Uitgebreid fotoverslag. Hartelijk dank daarvoor! Ik las op de site van Tefaf dat je voor fotograferen toestemming moest vragen aan de stand/galeriehouder, maar ik kan me niet voorstellen dat voor al die foto’s toestemming hebt gevraagd
@Paul, Dank en graag gedaan. Het antwoord op jouw vraag is tamelijk eenvoudig, ik heb een perskaart wardoor de galeriehouders direct zien waarvoor ik foto’s maak. Naar mijn ervaring zijn de meeste ook voor niet pers welwillend en vinden het geen enkel probleem. (Afgezien van het praktische aspect dat sommigen onvoorzichtig gaan rondlopen in stands om voldoende afstand te nemen en daardoor pardoes hun elleboog in een 17e eeuws doek zetten…)