Despite the spectacular theft suffered during the last edition, and a series of changes at the top, this 2023 edition confirmed TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation) as the queen of fairs, with 268 exhibitors from all over the world and a newfound enthusiasm in...
It could have been the deal of the century for a collector… but not! A Madrid auction house, Setdart, avoided a scandal by canceling the contract signed in 2018 with a collector for the sale of 16 modern works of art, later uncovered as “fakes” thanks to...
My “coup de coeur” this year at BRAFA is this pair of paintings by Bartholomaeus Bruyn the younger, dated around the second half of the 16th century. Their attribution has recently been confirmed, and they have been auctioned many times, the last one in...
My “coup de coeur” of this edition of BRAFA is a contemporary artwork by the Spanish artist José Maria Sicilia, presented in the Belgian gallery MSSDCLRQ (Meessen De Clerq, Brussels, Belgium). Exhibited as if it was a painting, the artwork turns out to be the set of...
Sometimes the big international auctions present sensational works, which arrive to update and modify the knowledge of the “catalog” of the greatest painters of the past. During the Sotheby’s auction at the end of January 2023, among a Rembrandt, a...
Whose are the works kept in museums? Whose is the bust of Nefertiti, or as in Germany they like to call it, their “Mona Lisa”? “All the cultural assets from other regions of the world do not belong to us, they are here illegally,” said in a interview...
