TEFAF Art Sales Report 2016

Karsten Greve one of the long-standing and great European postwar dealers, the gallery sold a large, glazed, and polychrome terra cotta Lucio Fontana vase, “Concetto Spaziale” from 1952, in the region of €350,000. Christophe van de Weghe sold Robert Mangold’s trapezium shaped 96 by 119 inch abstraction “Plane/Figure VI” from 1992, in acrylic and pencil on paper, for $650,000 to a European collector. Jack Kilgore Gallery Franz von Stuck’s large-scale “Der Drachentoter (The Dragon Slayer)” from 1913, featuring the armor costumed hero embracing a standing nude female figure, sold in the region of the $2.1 million asking price. a late Symbolist work by Edgard Maxence, “Rosa Mystica (The Mystery of the Rose)” from 1918 and measuring 64 1/4 inch in diameter, in the region of $450,000. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art sold Jacob Adriaensz Backer’s “A young Boy in a plumed cap” in black chalk with traces of red chalk for €11.000. Govaert Flinck’s...

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