The European Fine Art Fair 2010
Adélia Sabatini, Friday, 19th March 2010
The 2010 edition of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) got off to a flying and elegant start on preview day, 11 March, with an impressive concentration of Hermès handbags and Chanel suits per square mile.
The private view was attended by a record 10,500 people, and saw some key sales being made. Sculpture specialists Robert Bowman Gallery sold a white marble and bronze bust of Othello by Pietro Calvi to a private collector – who intends it for display at the National Gallery of Art, Washington – for a six-figure sum, while Ben Janssens Oriental Art sold more than 30 pieces to collectors on the opening day. There was much interest in the Paintings, Drawings & Prints section, with Bernheimer-Colnaghi finding buyers for four paintings early in the day, including Marguerite Gerard’s (1761-1837) Le Petit Messager, which had an asking price of €700,000, and Nicolas Colombel’s (1644-1717) The Toilet of Venus (€550,000).
Antiquities also performed well with Charles Ede Ltd selling a rare Fayum mummy portrait on wood painted in Egypt in the 2nd century AD to a private collector for a price in the region of €200,000.
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