OLD MASTER AND IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS

9TH-19TH MARCH 2023

MECC MAASTRICHT FORUM 100

6229 GV MAASTRICHT THE NETHERLANDS

STAND NUMBER 300

FOLLOWING THE FAIR, THESE PAINTINGS WILL BE ON VIEW AT 147 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1S 2TS

PENNY MARKS Director

+44(0)7720 848 586 pennymarks@richardgreen.com

RICHARD GREEN Chairman

+44(0)20 7493 3939 richardgreen@richardgreen.com www.richardgreen.com

JONATHAN GREEN CEO

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Foreword

We are excited to be coming back to TEFAF Maastricht in March, the fair’s traditional month, for the first time since the pandemic. On the edge of spring, the venerable town on the Maas presents a delightful scene. Huge barges make their stately way down the broad river; daffodils bloom beneath the seventeenth century ramparts; tables appear outside the cafés to welcome the sunshine.

The Maas (Meuse) has long been a major trading artery of Europe, passing through 575 miles of France, Belgium and the Netherlands on its journey to the North Sea. Our selection of paintings takes us across Europe over four centuries. It spans from a Flemish peasant scene by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, to outstanding examples of key themes in Dutch Golden Age painting: still life, flowerpieces, riverscapes and genre. Lacroix de Marseille and Vernet waft us to the golden Mediterranean. English Rococo is represented by Thomas Gainsborough’s pastoral landscape, French Rococo by Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s charming portrait of a young girl.

Corot and Boudin, forerunners and inspirers of Impressionism, can be viewed alongside tender flower portraits by Henri Fantin-Latour and examples of those artists who built on the lessons of Impressionism for a new century: Loiseau, Picabia and Marquet. Like the flow of the Maas, like the currents of art history, TEFAF Maastricht is a meeting place for connoisseurs from across Europe and the world beyond.

JONATHAN GREEN