Saturday, 19th March 2011
12:48pm
It’s day two of TEFAF and at 11am this fine Saturday morning the visitors were queuing out of the door, waiting to be let in. Yesterday, over 8,000 people attended and the weekend is set to bring even more. Works catching the eye include a ferocious-looking pair of Chinese leopards dating from the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, c1720. The enameled porcelain figures sit in the front of Cohen & Cohen”s (UK) stand and are believed to have been made for the Emperor himself. Subtle but exquisite is Gianmaria Buccellati’s (Italy) prize possession, a Valenciennes bracelet (see above) that...
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1:15pm
Yesterday was the preview of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the most prestigious and exquisite art fair of the year. Exactly 10,018 guests attended and approximately 1,800 bottles of champagne where served in addition to 3,500 bottles of wine! Apollo is situated at stand number 815, just meters away from the BMW M3 Gt2 Art Car, a predictably bright and colourful piece designed by Jeff Koons. The car is the most recent addition to BMW’s art collection, which includes Art Cars by Andy Warhol and Roy Liechtenstein. Other highlights include Portrait of a man with arms akimbo (see...
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Wednesday, 16th March 2011
11:06pm
As sponsors of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, Netherlands, follow our regular updates on the latest news throughout the fair.
18–27 March 2011
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Thursday, 10th March 2011
5:31pm
Much like the Hoppé exhibition at the other end of the National Portrait Gallery, Ida Kar’s photographs feature numerous portraits of the rich and famous cultural ‘avant-garde’ of her time, except that, unlike Hoppé’s, her works cannot be praised for their innovation, composition or revealing intimacy. Instead, they have a tendency to fall pray to the tired-old criticism that it is the fame of the sitter, rather than the touch of the author, that makes these portraits engaging. Unfortunately for Kar, suspicions over her ‘due credit’ are confirmed by the fact that her first solo show, ‘Forty Artists from...
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11:02am
René Lalique (1860-1945) was a major player of the Art nouveau and subsequent Art deco movement. His perfume bottles and glass designs transformed the female shape into a sensuous and mysterious body within the decorative home. Three generations later and now owned by Silvio Denz, the company has aptly created a work of art inspired by the late artist Yves Klein (1928-1962), entitled Yves Klein’s Winged Victory of Samothrace By Lalique, 2011 (see above), based on Klein’s appropriation of one of the most celebrated female figures of the world representing victory.
Yves Klein’s Winged Victory of Samothrace By Lalique is...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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