Enfilade

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF)
Maastricht, 18-27 March 2011

TEFAF Maastricht has built its reputation as the world’s most influential art and antiques fair on the unique quality of its exhibits. The 24^th edition at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 18 to 27 March 2011 will include great rarities and recent rediscoveries among more than 30,000 works of art, all rigorously vetted by committees of international experts. Among them will be the last fragment of an Egyptian water clock still in private hands, a painting containing one of the few self-portraits of Bernardo Bellotto, and a bronze by Gustave Courbet rediscovered after being lost for more than a century.

Bernardo Bellotto, Architectural Capriccio with a Self-Portrait of Bellotto in the Costume of a Venetian Nobleman, oil on canvas, 155 x 112 cm, 1760s — This painting contains one of the few self-portraits of Bellotto. He is depicted here lavishly clad in the traditional costume of Venetian nobility. The artist extends his arm in pride, inviting the viewer to admire the magnificent palatial setting, a testament of his exemplary artistic talent and innovation. Dating from the artist’s second Dresden sojourn between 1761 and 1767, the present work is the first of three known versions of the composition by Bellotto. Exhibited by Otto Naumann Ltd. Price: $11.5 million USD