TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair ) in Maastricht, Netherlands (March 14-23, 2014) is the world’s leading art fair, setting the standard for excellence in the art market. Participating dealers are admitted only after a strict selection process, and TEFAF‘s vetting system involves no fewer than 175 international experts in 29 different categories who examine every work of art in the fair for quality, authenticity and condition.
This quality and selection of work coming to TEFAF this year is already proving to be the best of the best.
Image: Galerie Beres at TEFAF, 2014
Above, Galerie Beres is featuring a fantastic painting by Adolph Richard Fleishmann c. 1963. Fleishmann (1892-1968) was a German abstract painter whose work was an early precursor of Op Art. In 1962, he became seriously ill, though still worked on a group of works known as the “Metamorphoses” images, which are characterized by individual L-forms pulled together as blocks c. 1963-1964. This is a fantastic example from this important series at the end of the artist’s life.
Image: Landau Fine Art, Inc. at TEFAF 2014
This wonderful work by the French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955) depicts a female figure in repose c. 1921. The figure and still life combined in this example of his “mechanical” paintings from the 1920’s make this work a stand out.
