Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Le Moulin d’Alphonse Daudet à Fontvieille, June 1888
Highlights at TEFAF Maastricht 2015 More than 270 of the world’s finest art, antiques and design dealers bring their very best pieces to the 2015 edition of TEFAF Maastrich, from 13 – 22 March 2015.]]>
March 15, 2015. Source: TEFAF
European painting
A remarkable watercolour in pristine condition, “Le Moulin d’Alphonse Daudet à Fontvieille, June 1888”, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), which has not been seen in public for decades forms the highlight of Dickinson’s stand. Madrid dealer, Galeria Caylus is showing a rare double-sided miniature by the Spanish master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), depicting “Saint Joseph’s Dream” (recto) and “Saint Francis in prayer” (verso) painted in oil on copper. Listed as missing since 1905, one of the great history paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) “Dionysius Areopagite”, a nobleman of Athens and disciple of St. Paul, can be seen on the stand of Lowell Libson Ltd.
Contemporary art
A monumental oil and mixed media work on canvas entitled “Merkaba”, 2004 by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) occupies the rear wall of Beck & Eggeling’s stand. One of Andy Warhol‘s most seminal images “Car Crash”, a screen print, 1978, is a highlight on the stand of Galerie Bastian while Galerie Boulakia is exhibiting a large-scale acrylic, oilstick and xerox work entitled “Red Joy” by Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1984.
Books and manuscripts
Les Enluminures, Paris, brings a Prayer Book by Albrecht Dürer, Heinrich Aldegrever, Johan Wierix, Crispijn de Passe the Elder, and others. Coming from a private collection in the USA, this previously unpublished Prayer Book constitutes a new addition to the Dürer canon and is an example of a hybrid manuscript with inserted prints and illuminated borders. It contains 14 engravings by Dürer, with contemporary hand-colouring, all from the ‘Engraved Passion’ executed between 1507 and 1512. The same gallery exhibits The Liesborn Gospels. Described as one of the most valuable manuscripts of the gospel in private hands, this copy, which is in almost perfect condition, has an impeccable, virtually unbroken line of provenance and an asking price $6.5 million.
Antiquities
Charles Ede, London, brings what is probably the oldest portrait at the fair: an exquisite Egyptian panel portrait of a young woman from the early 2nd century AD. Originating from er-Rubaiyat in the Fayum , south of Cairo, it was excavated in the late 19th century and formed part of the renowned collection of Theodor Graf (1840 – 1903), it was then acquired in the late 1920s by the Viennese collector Irene Heintschel-Heinegg. Rupert Wace, London exhibits an Egyptian painted wood panel from the sarcophagus of Hathorhotep, 12 th Dynasty, c.1890 – 1800 BC, which is in remarkable condition.
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