This year's prestigious event celebrates 25 years

At the fair in 2009 Tefaf
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This year's European Fine Art Fair European Fine Art Fair, better known as Tefaf, taking place annually in the Dutch city of Maastricht, is celebrating its 25 - anniversary. grand dame of art fairs greeted its first guests yesterday, today, March 16, it is widely opens the door, and the event will last until March 25.

In 1988, 24 years ago, Fair Tefaf first gathered in the center of exhibitions and collections of Maastricht 89 dealers, most of whom were Dutch. attended the first fair of 17,672 visitors, mostly residents of the coming "neighborhoods." "Sunday was a day of Belgian housewife who came to criticize the picture frames , "- says Peter Fairbanks (Peter Fairbanks), head of the Montgomery Gallery in San Francisco, which is involved in this event since its inception.

At this time, a small Dutch town, located on the southern tip of the Netherlands, near the border with Belgium and Germany, has attracted 270 dealers from around the world who have reserved their best for the event things. Today collectors flock to the fair from the U.S., Europe and Asia. Organizers even try to cut off the part of visitors: since many of them. In 2007 has been raised the price of a ticket - after the previous year 84,000 people jammed all the fair maze.

Tefaf Fair has long surpassed all its competitors, such as, for example, the Paris Biennale Antiques , and splendidly, while her other "colleagues", such as the London Fair Grovnor House and the International Asian Art Fair Haughton in New York, alas, gone the distance.

Specialists consider Tefaf trendsetter in its market niche. "Fair is known as the best event of its kind, is the heart of classical art market", - says James Goodwin (James Goodwin), who heads the training department of the art market at the University of Maastricht (Maastricht University) .

One of the most attractive features of the fair in Maastricht - it is truly encyclopedic diversity. exhibition is divided into 25 sections: here you can find anything your heart desires, from watches to old manuscripts, but most of all Fair Tefaf famous treasures of the Renaissance (this year there may be purchased, for example, a sculpture of a male head of Michelangelo (Michelangelo) for just 250,000 euros), paintings by old masters, especially the northern school, and a magnificent selection of antiques.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru

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