TEFAF New York's First Edition Sees Strong Sales, Including $2.5M Caravaggist Work

The inaugural TEFAF New York, the Dutch antiques fair from Maastricht, held its first edition dedicated to ancient art, with a second edition focused on contemporary art and design scheduled for May 2017 at Park Avenue Armory during Frieze week. Sales reports reveal notable transactions: a painting of St. John the Baptist (circa 1610-1612) by Bartolomeo Manfredi, a leading Caravaggist known for the 'Manfrediana Methodus', was sold by Robilant + Voena to a Chinese collector for $2.5 million. Two American museums competed for a bouquet of flowers by Eugène Delacroix (1830) at Galerie Sanct Lucas, also for $2.5 million. A pair of small oil-on-copper paintings by Pedro Orrente sold to an American collector from Colnaghi for £200,000. Ariadne sold a monumental Roman marble bust from the early 1st century, formerly in the Nelson-Atkins Museum collection, for an undisclosed six-figure sum. Daniel Crouch gallery placed a monumental world map by Frederick de Wit and Giacomo Giovanni, 'Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula' (1675), to an unidentified institution for $500,000. Richard Green sold a view of Venice by Bernardo Bellotto to an American collector for 'several million dollars'. Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts sold a painting by Edward Hopper, 'Portrait of Guy Pène du Bois' (circa 1904), for $1.5 million.