Is the Previous Masters market struggling? As Tefaf opens its truthful in Maastricht, we take a look at this main second available in the market calendar and what it tells us concerning the energy or in any other case of the marketplace for historic artwork. The Artwork Newspaper’s Appearing Artwork Market editor, Anny Shaw, joins us from the truthful.
The French-Lebanese seller and collector Claude Lemand and his spouse France
Photograph: Dahmane
The Institut du Monde Arabe, or Arab World Institute, in Paris has simply acquired a significant reward of greater than 1,600 trendy and up to date works from the French-Lebanese seller and collector Claude Lemand and his spouse, France—a group that may remodel the shows within the institute’s museum. We speak to the director of the museum, Nathalie Bondil, about her future plans and the €6m venture to remodel the institute.
Rosalba Carriera’s Self-Portrait of the Artist (1708)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a self-portrait in crimson chalk by the Venetian Rococo artist Rosalba Carriera. Dagmar Kornbacher, the director of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, tells us concerning the drawing, which is a key work in Muse or Maestra?, the museum’s new exhibition of labor by historic Italian ladies artists.
• Tefaf Maastricht, till 19 March.
• Muse or Maestra?: Ladies within the Italian Artwork World, 1400-1800, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, till 4 June.
