Fair includes rare Tibetan sculpture

A spectacular 14th century figure of an 11-headed Tibetan Avalokiteshvara is an antiquities highlight at the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), in full swing at Maastricht until Mar 24.

Renowned for its excellence, TEFAF attracts wealthy collectors and curators of major museums from around the world to Maastricht each year. The Tibetan figure, one of the highlights of the exhibition ‘Bronze’ at the Royal Academy in London last year, is being shown by Rossi and Rossi. The bronze, inset with silver, copper inlay and semi-precious stones, has also been on public display at exhibitions in Chicago and Washington DC. After more than 40 years in a European private collection, it is on the market for a price in the region of €6m. Old Master paintings are a traditional strength. Bernheimer-Colnaghi will exhibit A Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak, by Jan Lievens painted about 1631.

Other items range from a funerary figure made for the Pharaoh Taharqa to the guest book at the famed Lüchow’s restaurant that highlights the social life of New York in the 1950s and ’60s. The fair features 265 dealers from 20 countries.