The European Fine Art Fair, the world’s finest and most important art fair, is held from 12 to 21 March (see further details: http://www.tefaf.com). As a founding member Noortman Master Paintings has been a prominent participant from the very start. This year’s collection will include a lively work by Camille Pisarro (Saint-Thomas 1830 - 1903 Paris) called Marché à la Volaille à Gisors. The market scene is datable to 1889. During the 1880s Pissarro successfully developed his art into a new direction, becoming a leading and inspirational model to the younger generation, namely Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat and Signac. This market scene epitomises this new Pissarro who experimented with new techniques, formats and combines a fresh approach with strikingly original subject matter. Within the quite small and coherent group of market scenes, our gouache earns its mark as a multifaceted masterpiece of singular importance.

The Old Master section will show an as impressive as charming country scene Peasants Dancing the Tarantella Outside an Inn in a Hilly Landscape by Johannes Lingelbach (Frankfurt-am-Main 1622 - 1674 Amsterdam). The painting is a masterpiece by Lingelbach and brilliantly manifests every single facet of his talent. He was a figure painter ‘pur sang’. His figures are drawn from an amazingly rich and vast repertoire. Each of his characters is finely delineated and gives evidence of the artist’s relentlessly observing eye. Lingelbach had no trouble at all filling a canvas with numerous figures and succeeds effortlessly in showing them interacting in a completely natural manner.

Noortman Master Paintings will have other surprising highlights at Tefaf 2010 that require a personal approach. We will be happy to meet you at our stand nr 347 and present you with our collection

 

 
From 21 to 29 November Amsterdam will host the PAN, the most important national arts and antiques fair of the Netherlands. Noortman Master Paintings has participated from the outset and will also be present this year. When entering the fair you will find our booth directly on your right hand side. One of our choicest pictures is an important winter scene on oak panel by Aert van der Neer

By contrast Johannes Lingelbach is represented with a merry company set in the Roman campagna, an excellently preserved and very engaging scene. The Old Masters section is supplemented with masterpieces by Jan van Goyen, Philips Wouwerman, Ludolf Backhuysen and many more. Our nineteenth-century section boasts works by Edgar Degas (see image below), Camille Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour and Adolphe Monticelli. Your visit to our stand will be an exciting and most pleasant experience. In addition to the exhibition at pAn we continue to exhibit fine paintings in our gallery at the Van Eeghenstraat. Be welcome to contact us for a visit.