Off to Maastricht next week for my tenth (not good at counting so maybe ninth) visit to TEFAF, the biggest and best antique and arts fair. What I love most about it is not the paintings for which it is famous, but the amount, quality and variety of objects of art --from Renaissance spoons with coral branch handles (sold by Georg Laue last year) to the bicycle brooch with diamond wheels sold by Wartski and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It's like an enormous treasure hunt. Of course if you find treasure there you've got to pay. With so many top dealers trekking to the far south eastern corner of Holland and setting up camp for two weeks, this is not a place for bargain hunters. Mind you, there always are a few. 
In my eyes there is only one art—not high or low; not fine or decorative. Paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, embroideries, glass—I look at and care about much of this; the people who make or made it and those who collect and sell it--those are my targets. [AS FOR POSTS: MY TARGET FOR THAT IS WEEKLY FROM FRIDAY TO MONDAY.]
Monday 5 March 2012
Off to Maastricht next week for my tenth (not good at counting so maybe ninth) visit to TEFAF, the biggest and best antique and arts fair. What I love most about it is not the paintings for which it is famous, but the amount, quality and variety of objects of art --from Renaissance spoons with coral branch handles (sold by Georg Laue last year) to the bicycle brooch with diamond wheels sold by Wartski and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It's like an enormous treasure hunt. Of course if you find treasure there you've got to pay. With so many top dealers trekking to the far south eastern corner of Holland and setting up camp for two weeks, this is not a place for bargain hunters. Mind you, there always are a few. 
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