马斯特里赫特，2012年3月18日。在世界顶级的艺术品与古董展会----欧洲艺术与古董博览会（马斯特里赫特）庆祝其创办二十五周年之即，喜人的预展销售业绩让整个展会充满了自豪与自信。一幅彼得·保罗·鲁本斯爵士(Sir Peter Paul Rubens)的代表画作、一幅英王亨利八世(Henry VIII)的珍贵肖像画、一座安尼施·卡普尔(Anish Kapoor)的雕塑和一件具有重要历史意义的银器----这些仅是展会预展中售出的精品中的一小部分。在荷兰南部的马斯特里赫特会展中心MECC举办的第二十五届欧洲艺术与古董博览会将持续到3月25日（周日）。为庆祝欧洲艺术与古董博览会（马斯特里赫特）的第二十五个生日，展会举办了一系列庆典活动，其中包括在周五举办的一场参加人数众多的《艺术市场专题研讨会》(Art Market Symposium)，以及在会上发布的一本关于展会的书籍。
欧洲艺术与古董博览会（马斯特里赫特）周四的预展吸引了来自世界各地的10,413位参观者，其中包括很多私人藏家和博物馆馆长。在预展开始后的十分钟里，一名买家就来到了伦敦展商The Weiss Gallery的展位上，仔细检查了一幅最近才被重新发现的十六世纪英王亨利八世的精美肖像画，二十分钟后，交易完成了，这位私人藏家购得了这幅难得的《迪奇雷·亨利八世肖像》(The Ditchley Henry VIII)。这幅英国画派肖像画标价250万英磅，最近才从一位法国私人藏家那里购得，它的上一次面世是在60年前的一场拍卖会上。另一件在预展后迅速售出的重要作品是彼得·保罗·鲁本斯爵士的画作《耶稣受难记》(The Crucifixion)，由慕尼黑展商Bernheimer-Colnaghi带来，购买者为在美国的荷兰收藏家艾克(Eijk) 和 罗斯-玛丽·凡奥特罗(Rose-Marie van Otterloo)，这幅作于17世纪的油画标价350万美元。
阿姆斯特丹的展商Noortman Master Paintings也在预展中取得了不俗的销售成绩，售出了荷兰画家简·凡海姆(Jan van Huysum)的静物画《陶罐中的花》(Flowers in a terracotta vase)和艾德里安·库特(Adrian Coorte)的静物画《壁架上的三个桃子》(Three peaches on a ledge)。来自伦敦的The Fine Art Society展出了罗伯（Rob）和尼克·卡特（Nick Carter）制作的经典荷兰静物画的现代版作品《静物画的转换》(Transforming Still Life Painting)----一部用老安普罗修斯·博斯查多特(Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder)最伟大的油画作品之一改编制作成的的三小时数码电影。展会的古典大师作品经销商鲍勃·哈伯德(Bob Haboldt)买下了这两部限量版电影中的一部作为自己的私人收藏，只留下最后一部待售。纽约的French & Company展商带来了一幅更为早期的别具一格的画作：16世纪意大利画家朱塞佩·阿尔钦博(Giuseppe Arcimboldo)的《可颠倒的拟人肖像：水果构成的男人》(A reversible anthropomorphic portrait of a man composed of fruit)，该画在预展中被一名欧洲私人藏家买走。
属于二十五周年庆的销售成果还有更多：一名美国私人藏家购买了伦敦展商Koopman Rare Art带来的标价500万美元的“沃波尔墨水瓶”(The Walpole Inkstand)，这件具有重大历史意义的银器是伟大的银匠师保罗·拉米热(Paul de Lamerie)1729年为英国第一位首相罗伯特·沃波尔(Sir Robert Walpole)制作的两件银质墨水瓶之一，另一件现属英格兰银行(the Bank of England)所有。来自哈勒姆的展商John Endlich Antiquairs售出了一件17世纪的荷兰经典银器----由代尔夫特银匠师康奈利·凡伯奇(Cornelis van der Burch)1604年制作的银质泰扎饰杯(tazza)，售价未知，这只泰扎饰杯曾经属于瑞特蒙收藏(Ritman Collection)。
一座描绘哈特塞普苏特女王(Queen Hatshepshut)的罕见的埃及石灰岩浮雕在展会开幕前就引起了广泛的关注和兴趣，由伦敦展商Rupert Wace Ancient Art带来的这座浮雕描绘的是公元前1479年至1458年统治埃及的哈特塞普苏特女王，这是一位不甘心只当男法老妻子而凭自己的实力当上法老的伟大女性，有关她的肖像存世极少。这座浮雕在预展中很快就被一位美国私人藏家以“六位数的价格”买走。另一名纽约的古董展商Royal-Athena Galleries售出了一座公元1-2世纪古罗马的阿佛洛狄特青铜躯体雕像，雕像的标价为37.5万美元。另外，阿姆斯特丹展商Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg将一座极早期的青铜雕像----公元前8-7世纪的维拉诺瓦/古意大利两轮战车模型出售给了阿姆斯特丹大学地中海考古博物馆(the Allard Pierson Museum at the University of Amsterdam)。
欧洲艺术与古董博览会上的现代作品也有很好的销售成绩。韩国首尔的展商Gana Art带来的一座安尼施·卡普尔(Anish Kapoor)2011年制作的无标题不锈钢雕塑被一名欧洲藏家收入囊中。慕尼黑展商Daniel Blau以每幅5万至6万欧元的价格售出了二十多幅上世纪五十年代安迪·沃霍尔(Andy Warhol)的素描画。这些素描画十分受欢迎，不少在预展中已被订购，以至于展商不得不重新布置自己的展台。在欧洲艺术与古董博览会的纸本艺术区，一位美国藏家从维也娜摄影展商Johannes Faber处购买了九幅约瑟夫·休德克(Josef Sudek)的老式银盐感光摄影作品。
展会的参观者中有众多来自中国的收藏家，他们购买了许多艺术品，其中包括一件伦敦展商Wartski带来的卡地亚(Cartier)古董首饰。在预展中，宾客们喝掉了1800瓶香槟酒，吃掉了15万块点心，到周五傍晚前，已经有160架私人飞机降落在马斯特里赫特-亚琛机场。
请关注欧洲艺术与古董博览会Twitter: Twitter @TEFAF、Facebook
也可以使用以上二维码从苹果软件商店和安卓软件市场下载免费的欧洲艺术与古董博览会应用程序。
自2004年起，欧洲艺术基金会（马斯特里赫特）为支持国际癌症研究，在马斯特里赫特大学医疗中心设立了欧洲艺术基金肿瘤学专席。
艺术，不止是资产
欧洲艺术和古董博览会及其主赞助商“安盛艺术保险公司”（AXA Art）共同秉持这样一个观念：“艺术品，不止是资产。”它们联手为艺术品收藏者，就风险防范、保存、复原与修复等方面，全方位地提供了独到的专家意见，让收藏者们能够将收藏品保持在最完好的状态下。www.axa-art.com
媒体请关注：媒体信息和高清晰度照片可参见网站www.tefaf.com的PRESS分页。
TEFAF设有中文网站，有关展会的基本信息请参阅: www.tefaf.com.cn
如需得到更多信息请与下列人员取得联系：
徐晓玲
TEFAF中国代表处
上海市仙霞路345号东方世纪大厦9C座
E︳ tefaf.china@yahoo.com
T ︳+86 21 6153 3020
Maastricht,18 March, 2012. Strong early sales have established a confident mood at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s finest art and antiques fair, as it celebrates its Silver Jubilee. A major painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, a powerful portrait of the English king Henry VIII, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and an important and historic piece of silver were just some of the sales at The European Fine Art Fair, which continues at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands until Sunday 25 March. On Friday TEFAF Maastricht held a well-attended Art Market Symposium and launched a book about the Fair, both these being among a series of events and initiatives marking its Silver Jubilee.
Private collectors and museum curators from all over the world were among the 10,413 people who came to the preview of TEFAF Maastricht on Thursday. Within ten minutes of the doors opening, a buyer was inspecting a magnificent, recently rediscovered portrait of the 16th century English king Henry VIII at the stand of The Weiss Gallery from London. Twenty minutes later the European private collector’s purchase of The Ditchley Henry VIII was complete. The English School painting, for which the asking price was UK pounds 2.5 million, recently emerged from a French private collection 60 years after it was last seen at auction. Another major early sale at TEFAF was by Bernheimer-Colnaghi of Munich who sold The Crucifixion by Sir Peter Paul Rubens to the American-based Dutch collectors Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo. The asking price for the 17th century oil painting was €3.5 million.
Noortman Master Paintings of Amsterdam also had a strong start to the Fair selling two important still lifes by Dutch painters - Flowers in a terracotta vase by Jan van Huysum and Adrian Coorte’s Three peaches on a ledge. The Fine Art Society from London is exhibiting a contemporary take on classic Dutch still lifes with Rob and Nick Carter’s Transforming Still Life Painting, a three hour digitally engineered film of one of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s greatest paintings. Bob Haboldt, an Old Master paintings dealer at TEFAF, bought one of the limited edition films for his private collection leaving just one available for purchase. An unconventional work from a much earlier age, A reversible anthropomorphic portrait of a man composed of fruit by the 16th century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was sold to a European private collector by French & Company of New York.
Silver sales were also strong with an American private collector buying The Walpole Inkstand for which Koopman Rare Art of London was asking $5 million. This important and historic piece is one of only two made by the great silversmith Paul de Lamerie in 1729 for Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. The other is owned by the Bank of England. John Endlich Antiquairs from Haarlem sold a classic piece of 17th century Dutch silver, a tazza made by the Delft silversmith Cornelis van der Burch in 1604, which was once in the Ritman Collection, for an undisclosed sum.
A rare Egyptian limestone relief depicting Queen Hatshepshut, one of the first women to rule in her own right rather than as the wife of a male Pharaoh, attracted huge interest before the Fair and was quickly sold at the private view to an American private collector for “a substantial six figure sum” by Rupert Wace Ancient Art of London. Very few images of Hatshepshut, who ruled from 1479 to 1458BC, have survived. Another antiquities dealer, Royal-Athena Galleries of New York, sold Roman bronze torso of Aphrodite 1st-2nd century AD which had an asking price of $375,000, while Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg of Amsterdam sold a very early bronze Villanova/Italic two-wheeled model of a chariot from the 8th-7th centuries BC to the Allard Pierson Museum at the University of Amsterdam.
TEFAF Modern also performed well with Gana Art of Seoul, Korea selling an untitled 2011 stainless steel sculpture by Anish Kapoor to a European collector while Daniel Blau of Munich sold more than 20 of his exhibition of 1950s drawings by Andy Warhol for prices in the region of €50,000 to €60,000 each. The drawings proved so popular that he had to re-hang his stand. In TEFAF Paper an American collector bought nine vintage silver prints by Josef Sudek from photography dealer Johannes Faber of Vienna.
See more sales as an attachment to this release.
Among visitors to the Fair were a large group of Chinese collectors, who bought a number of pieces including a piece of antique Cartier jewellery from Wartski of London. At the private view the guests drank 1,800 bottles of champagne and ate 150,000 canapés while by Friday evening 160 private jets had flown into Maastricht-Aachen airport.
Follow TEFAF on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.
Use this QR code to download the free app in the Appstore or Android Market.
Since 2004 TEFAF Maastricht has supported international cancer research by a TEFAF Chair of Oncology at Maastricht University Medical Centre.
Art, more than an Asset
TEFAF shares its view of art as more than an asset with its principal sponsor, AXA Art. Their partnership provides art collectors with unique expertise covering the full range of risk prevention, conservation, recovery and restoration, to enable them to maintain their collections in the best possible condition. www.axa-art.com
皖公网安备 34010402700602号