At the 2009 Fair the largest-ever number of dealers – about 240 from 15 countries around the world - will for the first time include a section of ten leading specialists in 20th century and contemporary design.
Exhibitors at TEFAF will show art and antiques worth over US$1 billion, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, classical antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, jewellery, textiles, porcelain, glass, silver and other works of art. Every era from classical antiquity to the 21st century will be represented.
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New: Design section at TEFAF
Twentieth century design and applied arts are increasingly popular and for the first time TEFAF Maastricht will have a section entirely dedicated to these stylish modern pieces.
Eight of the world’s leading specialist dealers will form TEFAF Design, including a number who have never exhibited at TEFAF previously. Among the latter will be Sebastian + Barquet from New York and London, Galerie Eric Philippe from Paris, Galerie Ulrich Fiedler of Berlin, L’Arc en Seine from Paris and Bel Etage Wolfgang Bauer of Vienna.
TEFAF Design will also have a loan exhibition from the collection of the Museum Jachthuis St Hubertus in the Netherlands. This early 20th century country house was designed by the famous Dutch architect H. P. Berlage. It was the home of Anton Kröller and his wife Helene Kröller-Müller, who founded the renowned Kröller-Müller Museum in 1938. The TEFAF Exhibition will include a Berlage dining table and chairs and children’s furniture as well as well as original china, silverware and glass. These art objects have never been exhibited outside the country house before.
Magnificent Works of Art
Among the many magnificent works of art for sale at TEFAF will be:
Black stallion and his groom by the Dutch artist Roelandt Savery, believed to have been painted for the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II in Prague in the early 17th century.
The beautifully illuminated 16th century manuscript Vita Christi, a devotional text by Ludolphus Carthusiensis.
A rare 18th century Meissen porcelain figure by Johann Joachim Kändler depicting Schindler, a close confident of Graf Heinrich von Brühl, Chief Minister to Augustus III of Saxony and Director of the Meissen factory.
Of course, painting of old masters like Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (18th century), and Michael Sweerts (17th century).
