12 March in Maastricht (Netherlands) opened the world's largest art fair Tefaf. Obnadezhennye success of the recent auction Christie's, which were sold from the collection of works by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger nearly half a billion dollars, 239 participants bring to the 22 th annual fair exhibits, the total cost is estimated at one billion dollars.

According to many of them, Maastricht will show whether the newly wealthy people to invest in works of art. Berlin expert photos Rudolph Kiken said that more recently on the art-market «dominated by aggressive nouveaux riches», but now it once again returned to «mature collectors».

Tefaf Fair, sponsored by the Confederation of European art dealers, offers visitors a museum quality works of different periods, from prehistoric times to the present day, and one of its pillars - paintings, drawings and prints by old masters.

Among the most interesting exhibits - a still life by Picasso in 1945, estimated at 10 million dollars, recently discovered the canvas Egon Schiele «Mother and Child» 1911 (8 million euros), surrealistic snapshot Man Ray, 1926 «the Black and white »(600 thousand euros), as well as« the Madonna and Child »brush Lucas Cranach, written in 1534 (1.6 million euros).

Tefaf Fair will be open from 12 to 22 March.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: lenta.ru , bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru