When the 22nd version of TEFAF, long known as the European Fine Art Fair, opened last Friday in this small Dutch border town, not a glimmer of the prevailing global financial crisis was apparent to the casual observer. By the second hour of the vernissage, the aisles, lined with a record 239 dealers exhibiting old master paintings, antiquities, antiques, as …
Dealer Interview: Ben Janssens
Ben Janssens, the London dealer in Oriental art and chairman of TEFAF/Maastricht’s Executive Committee, describes new directions for Europe’s largest antiques and fine arts fair: Can you describe the origins and evolution of TEFAF/Maastricht? In 1975 a number of the world’s leading Old Masters dealers, such as Johnny van Haeften of London and the late Robert Noortman of Maastricht, believed …