Why visit TEFAF, one of the most beautiful antique shows in the world, if you’re not a museum director or a collector with a seven-figure budget?
Perhaps to grasp the opportunity to see wonderful artworks that in many cases will have appeared for the last time in a public space.
With this in mind, we asked Maria De Peverelli, Partner and Executive Chairman of Stonehage Fleming Art Management, Daniela Lippi, restorer and conservator, Luisa Berretti, Director of the National Museum of Palazzo Mansi and National Museum of Villa Guinigi (Lucca) and the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art (Arezzo), and Anna Pelagotti, Art-Test, to confess which artworks they would have gladly taken home to have the possibility to see them again and again.
Two unusual paintings!
“Both landscapes, one by Charles Beddington and one by Antonacci Lapiccirella, created by artists unknown to me. Two discoveries for me!
From Charles Beddington, the powerful, magical painting by Eppo Doeve .
Tempera on synthetic resin
63 x 85 cm
From Antonacci La Piccirella, another mountain landscape, of a completely different spirit, with an extraordinary root in the foreground!“
Unforgettable
“I found myself strongly attracted to these two. I went back to see this double portrait several times, and I missed being able to touch it!“
One artwork for me and one for a museum
“The female nudes by Modigliani exhibited by Agnews Works on paper, which were owned by his friend and mentor Paul Alexandre, and which condense in them the knowledge of Cubism and primitive art. Unfortunately, they had already been sold!
If you ask me instead for a “museum piece,” the one that in my opinion was an absolute masterpiece was the Madonna with Child by Tilman Riemenschneider, the last work of the German master still in private hands.“
Enchanted by these gazes
“The truth and power of this painting, the Astronomer, by Luca Giordano, conquered me. And who knows if I would have been able to decipher what he wrote on the sheet he’s showing!
Then, how not to succumb to the enchantment of the ever-refined Jacopo da Empoli with the disenchantment of his Saint Julian?
But of course, I would have taken many more with me.“
Below is a small selection of some other remarkable artworks, in some cases with their prices. Which one would YOU have chosen?
