The Maastricht treats

Evening Standard - London | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

GODFREY BARKER visits the most important art fair in the world and previews spring sales in London

Above:a lost Gerrit vanHonthorst ofTheMockingofChrist - candlelit DutchCaravaggismoftheearly 1620s at its supreme best, asking price GBP 1.85 million

IT'S MARCH, so it's Maastricht, if you care for art. All Bond Street and St James's decamped 500 miles last week to the infamous Holland cow town which is now, astonishingly, the unlikely venue of the world's No 1 art fair. You go to Maastricht when the daffodils wave from the ditches and find the 180 leading art dealers in the world - for, with a ...

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