TEFAF Maastricht 2024
TEFAF Maastricht, the European Fine Art Foundation’s annual March fair, always marked the traditional celebratory kickoff to the spring fair season. It used to draw around 70,000 visitors a year, according to TEFAF data. Covid changed it all when TEFAF became the first fair in March 2020 to suffer the immediate impact of the pandemic.
As the 2024 edition of TEFAF opens to the public, the fair’s organizers and exhibitors are moving past these turbulent years and proving that there is no substitute for a real-life luxury fair, where visitors view objects and engage in discussions that will help guide their choices.
Maastricht lies closely situated to the Belgian border and, having been part of France in the 18th and 19th centuries, still enjoys many cultural influences from its neighbouring countries, contributing to the “Burgundian” lifestyle and atmosphere associated with the city.
Some 50,000 visitors are estimated to be there at the MECC convention centre in Maastricht for the fair, among them about 300 museum directors and 650 curators, as well as 30 or 40 museum patron groups. This year the fair includes 270 exhibitors from 21 countries.
The high values of works headed to this year’s edition include a Vincent van Gogh portrait priced at $4.95 million; Artemisia Gentileschi’s “The Penitent Magdalene,” for upward of $5 million; and a Wassily Kandinsky painting offered at an undisclosed price, that will exceed $50 million.
An absolute annual must-visit!
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