Is the Old Masters market struggling? As Tefaf opens its fair in Maastricht, we look at this major moment in the market calendar and what it tells us about the strength or otherwise of the market for historic art. The Art Newspaper’s Acting Art Market editor, Anny Shaw, joins us from the fair.
The French-Lebanese dealer and collector Claude Lemand and his wife France
Photo: Dahmane
The Institut du Monde Arabe, or Arab World Institute, in Paris has just received a major gift of more than 1,600 modern and contemporary works from the French-Lebanese dealer and collector Claude Lemand and his wife, France—a collection that will transform the displays in the institute’s museum. We talk to the director of the museum, Nathalie Bondil, about her future plans and the €6m project to transform 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 red chalk by the Venetian Rococo artist Rosalba Carriera. Dagmar Kornbacher, the director of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, tells us about the drawing, which is a key work in Muse or Maestra?, the museum’s new exhibition of work by historic Italian women artists.
• Tefaf Maastricht, until 19 March.
• Muse or Maestra?: Women in the Italian Art World, 1400-1800, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, until 4 June.