Frans Francken the Younger
Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice
Strong sales in the first days of TEFAF 2012 TEFAF Maastricht, the most important Art and Antiquities Fair in the world, celebrates its 25th edition from March 16 – 25, 2012. Among the highlights sold in the first days of the fair is an important work by Frans Francken, sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.]]>
Source: TEFAF Maastricht
10413 people -including collectors and museum curators from all over the world- attended the preview of TEFAF Maastricht, considered the most important Art and Antiquities Fair in the world.
Art dealer Johnny van Haeften sold no less than fourteen works in the first three days of the show, including “Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice” by Frans Francken, sold for $14 million. The buyer, according to several sources, was the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
French & Company, New York, sold a painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo to a private European collector. Although Arcimboldo is a painter whose works rarely appear for sale this “reversible” portrait had been on the market for some time. At Colnaghi, a “Crucifixion” painted by Peter Paul Rubens sold for €3.5 million.
In the antiquities section, an Egyptian relief depicting Queen Hatshepshut, one of the first women who ruled as pharaoh in her own right, was sold by Rupert Wace Ancient Art of London to a private American collector, for a price “in the six figures”.
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