“This would be a bold acquisition to make,” said Frederick Ilchman, the chair of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He and his team of curators were gazing, fascinated, at a 16th-century portrait of Antonietta Gonzales, a girl with hypertrichosis, a rare congenital condition that causes excessive
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TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche
With high-end art fairs proliferating, dealers have many choices to make, starting with the location of the event. Another decision comes with creating their booth with the larger fair context in mind. Should they complement the galleries around them or offer a somewhat contrasting selection? For the New York edition
Galleries Introduce Themselves at TEFAF, Virtually
LONDON — For fans of Pre-Raphaelite art — the mid-19th-century London-born Victorian artistic movement — Martin Beisly’s gallery in St. James’s is a fantastical treasure trove of sumptuous paintings, drawings and sculpture. Works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown hang on forest green walls across from pieces by
TEFAF Stays Online, for Now
What was still new and different a year ago is now more routine: A venerable art fair is entirely digital. The organizers of the European Fine Art Fair, presenting TEFAF Online 2021 from Thursday through Monday, decided that given the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, a virtual edition was the