MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
The inaugural New York edition of TEFAF—the illustrious fair that has long hosted dealers who specialize in everything from ancient to modern art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, each year—opened today to invited guests. On view were pre-Columbian sculptures, a sarcophagus, works by heavy hitters like Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and more momento mori works than you could ever dream of.
Click the photos below to look around the fair.
01
Anton Raphael Mengs's Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar, at top, was purchased by Anderson Cooper during the opening of TEFAF.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A multimedia video work by Hercules Serges at the Rijksmuseum's booth.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
The roving oyster shucker.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Flowers on the staircase of the Park Avenue Armory.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
The display booth of Shapero Rare Books, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Pieter Brueghel the Younger's Winter Landscape with Skaters, at the booth of De Jonckheere, Geneva.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine, on offer at Agnews, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Detail of Princess Sopdet-em-Haawt's wood sarcophagus, ca. 656 B.C., at Safani Gallery, New York.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Pre-Columbian works at New York's AANW.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
"Kunstkammer objects from the Renaissance and Baroque period set in a modern collector's cabinet according to historical records," at Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A formal dinnerware silver set, in miniature, at Aardewrk Dutch Silver and Antique Jewelry, the Netherlands.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A Peruvian stone Vanitas work, Vanitas "The Triumph of Death", late 17th to early 18th century, at Jaime Eguiguren, Buenos Aires.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A display case at Veronique Bamps, Monaco.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A marble vanitas sculpture, at Colnaghi, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A French arm reliquary of a bishop saint, ca. 1535, at Sam Fogg, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Helmets at Phoenix Ancient Art, New York.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Theodor Rombouts's A Young Soldier (1624), at Robilant + Voena, London, Milan, and St. Moritz.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of the booth of Quénetain, Paris.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Luca Giordano's Portrait of a Philosopher (ca. 1663), at Rob Smeets, Geneva.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Emerald necklace, at Reza, Paris.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of the booth of Gregg Baker Asian Art, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Works by Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler at New York's Jack Kilgore.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of the booth of Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
An amber chess set, ca. 1700, at Kunstkammer Georg Laue, Munich.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of the booth of Rome's Alberto di Castro.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of a display case at the booth of London's Koopman Rare Art.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Old World maps at Antiquariaat Forum, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
A massive silver candelabra, at Burzio, London.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Equestrian grear at Eguiguren Arte de Hispanoamérica, Buenos Aires.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
John Anster Fitzgerald's Titania and Bottom from a Midsummer-Night's Dream, at New York's French & Company.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Willem van Konijenburg's War Dance (1919) on offer at New York's Mireille Mosler.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Cameos at Alessandra Di Castro, Rome.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Illuminated manuscripts at Basel's Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of the booth of London's Ronald Phillips.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
View of a display case at the booth of Munich's Hemmerle.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS
Pair of Blue and White Chinoiserie Large Ewers from Delft, ca. 1690 at Aronson Delftware, Amsterdam.
MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS