Until Sunday, March 22 in the Netherlands, Maastricht is an antique fair TEFAF. This year it gathered more than 270 art-дилеров from 20 countries, serving in their halls of antiquity, primitive naive art, painting impressionist and modern, Old master paintings, antique furniture, jewelry, modern art and much-многое more.

TEFAF — one of the oldest European art fairs — is working since 1975 (under the name the European Fine Art Fair, TEFAF — 1988). Many people come here regularly, including representatives of museums, who advise private collectors. "We bring collectors, give them recommendations about what they should buy for yourself, — commented Director of collections of the Rijksmuseum Taco, Dibbits. — And maybe one day we will see these paintings and pieces of art in the Museum."

Among the most expensive works of the fair this year — Roman bust for $ 3 million;, an illuminated manuscript of the tenth century in excellent condition for 6.5 million dollars; Tibetan bronze Buddha of the XVI century over $ 2 million; African sculpture for 1 million euros; necklace that once belonged to Alice Liddell, the prototype for "Alice in Wonderland", for $ 5 million; paintings by pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Джонсона (5.8 million euros) and Charles Allston Collins (2.5 million euros); photograph of the American photographer Irving Penn (1950-е) for $ 1.5 million; several works 1960-х years of the Italian Lucio Fontana at a price up to $ 4 million.

At the time, a few decades ago, the current high reputation of the fair has laid the art of the Old Masters, especially Dutch painters of the XVII century, which today remains one of the main specializations of TEFAF. New-йоркская gallery French & Co offers this year a Dutch still life by Willem Klas Kheda (Willem Claeszoon Heda) for $ 12 million. And on the stand of London dealer Richard green draws attention to the work of the Dutch painter of the Golden age Art van der Nera (Aert van der Neer) "Frozen river at sunset," valued at 5.5 million pounds. "It is a masterpiece of the artist Museum level", — commented on Richard green.

On the stand Stair Sainty include work by the French painter Jean-Батиста Oudry (Jean-Baptiste Oudry), originating from the collection of sir Elton John.

Some of the exhibitors this year, offering both classic and modern things. So, on the stand, a young Italian dealer Fabrizio Moretti (Fabrizio Moretti) can be seen hanging in front of religious paintings on a gold background, and the painting by Italian abstract artist Enrico Castellani (Enrico Castellani) 1960-х years (each work valued at 2.5 million euros). On the other stand the works of video art from a recent installation in St Paul's Cathedral, bill viola ($200 thousand) are shown next to religious paintings of the seventeenth century, it is estimated much more expensive. As you can see, TEFAF aims to modernize traditional antique to the agenda, attracting new exhibitors from the field of modern and contemporary art. In the meantime, the London fair Frieze, on the contrary, the child project launches Frieze Masters, which specializes on the works of the Old Masters.

Among the interesting projects TEFAF,aimed at promoting contemporary art, is to call the project "Night fishing", curated by writer Sidney Picasso. Its essence is to provide close, on one stand works from several galleries — debutants TEFAF.

In the framework of a temporary exhibition at TEFAF presents 28 drawings of the Haarlem Museum Taylor, the oldest Museum in the Netherlands. Graphic works cover a time span from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It works by such masters as Michelangelo, Raphael, Hendrik Goltzius, Jan van Goyen, Claude Lorrain and Jean-Антуан Watteau.

Fair TEFAF this year, as never before, rich rediscovered works by famous masters. Among them should be called early work of Joshua Reynolds "Dionysius the Areopagite, a noble resident of Athens and a disciple of the Apostle Paul," whose whereabouts remained unknown since 1905; gallery Lowell Libson exposes it for 950 thousand euros.

Painting by William Stott (William Stott) "Carrier" (1870-е) with the boat moving along the mirrored surface of the river, and two girls, looking after her, was not present a few decades. On the stand Fine Art Society canvas exhibited for 2.2 million pounds.

• WILLIAM STOTT Carrier. 1870-е
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• VINCENT VAN GOGH the Alphonse Daudet's Windmill in Fontvieille. 1888
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But the main sensation of TEFAF this year was the appearance of the figure, recently attributed to Vincent van Gogh. Watercolour "the Mill of Alphonse Daudet in Fontvieille", created in June 1888, and perfectly preserved, presented at the stand of Dickinson with a valuation of approximately $ 10 million. The key evidence of the authenticity of the works were pencil notes on the back. It turned out that they were made by Johanna van Gogh, the widow of the artist's brother Theo and one of the organizers of the first exhibitions of Vincent. On the back of the picture with the mill were found the numbers corresponding to the numbers in the two lists of the works of van Gogh, made by Joanna in 1902 and 1912. The last time the drawing was exhibited in Germany in 1910, and then was lost in private European collections of more than a hundred years.

Already contains information about the number of transactions. Belgian art-дилер Vervoordt Axel (Axel Vervoordt) in the first days of the fair, sold a work of Japanese post-war artist of Jiro Yoshihara, the founder of artists Association "gutai". The exact transaction amount is not known, but the painting "untitled" 1968 was initially exhibited over 550 thousand euros.

On the second day of the fair, the gallery of Thaddeus Ropak (Paris and Salzburg), which is placed in the framework of the project "Night fishing," sold one of two works by Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz), "Red torso" (1993), for 1.4 million euros.

• GEORG BASELITZ Red torso. 1993
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• Pavilion gallery Rossi & Rossi at TEFAF
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Gallery Marlborough Contemporary (London) sold a new work, "Lemon Hound" (2015) popular artist Jason Brooks. The work, which was exhibited for 60 thousand pounds, was bought by a collector from Belgium.

At the stand of Wartski, which specializes on the works of decorative-прикладного and jewelry, signed several deals with the works of Carl Faberge and Cartierparticular sold the spoon for caviar, made for Faberge agate, gold and sapphires.

Fabio Rossi of London's Rossi gallery & Rossi announced the sale of the statue of a sitting Buddha in the early XVIII century, gilded bronze with traces of paint approximately 350 thousand dollars to the Asian collector; sculpture Tirthankara XI–XII centuries from the Northern regions of India in around 300 thousand dollars to a British collector; sculptures of the goddess Tara of the XI century, of black stone, coming from the North-восточных parts of India approximately 85 thousand dollars to the American buyer.

Among the most significant results TEFAF for Roman galleries Alessandra di Castro Antichità notes deal with the sculpture "Laocoon" by the Italian masters of the XVII century, Domenico Viggiani (Domenico Piggiani). The exact amount of the transaction the gallery was not disclosed.

In a Paris gallery Applicat-Prazan to the new owner moved a painting Nicolas de Stael "Agrigento" in 1954. And Amsterdam's Gallery Delaive sold "Blue sponge" by Yves Klein, 1961.

From the graphs it is worth noting the work of Giovanni Antonio Guardi "Conquest Teero", which was bought at the stand of gallery Francesca Antonacci/Damiano Lapiccirealla in the first minutes after the opening of the fair.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artnet.com, forbes.com, the telegraph.co.uk, tefaf.com, tefaf.com, theguardian.com, artinvestment.ru