Maastricht news: the world's most important art fair continues to throw up revelatory works in all media, says Samson Spanier.(European Fine Art Fair)

Apollo | May 1, 2006| | Copyright

Maastricht's European Fine Art Fair in March was certainly a commercial success (see 'Art Market', pp. 96-100), but it was also a crucible for exciting discoveries. In the decorative arts, the highlight was a remarkable display of 60 carved pieces of amber with Georg Laue, Munich, including a German 16th-century Madonna and Child and a portrait of a classicial warrior, c. 1701-1713, that may have been made for the Amber Room in St Petersburg. At Kugel of Paris, meanwhile, there was an unpublished Roman pietra dura tabletop, c. 1580.

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