Press release
PAN OFFERS QUALITY FOR ART BUYERS
Amsterdam, 21 November 2008 –Art buyers are in the right place at PAN Amsterdam. This renowned art and antiques fair opens in the RAI Parkhal in Amsterdam this weekend. 128 exhibitors are bringing their finest and best works. Among the masterpieces a landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael at €3.5 million and a French Louis XV chandelier with 540 crystals for around €150,000. Sexy Relaxy, a designer chair by Richard Hutten is on offer for €15,000 and majolica dishes from the Swat Valley for €250-350. The fair offers a popular alternative to many classic forms of investment, with the added great advantage—enjoyment. Strict vetting guarantees the quality in all price ranges. PAN Amsterdam runs from 23 to 30 November in the RAI Parkhal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29 – 1682), Winter Landscape with Wind Mill
Old Masters
Despite its small size Winter Landscape with Wind Mill by Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29 – 1682) makes a great impression. We know of only twenty-five landscapes by this artist. It is being offered by Noortman Master Paintings for €3.5 million. Noortman also has three works by Jan van Goyen (1596-1656). Salomon Lilian has a portrait of a man dated 1643 by Govaert Flinck (1615-1660). It is probably Augustijn Wtenbogaert (1577-1655) at the age of sixty-six. Flinck made several portraits of the Wtenbogaert family. Bijl-Van Urk is showing a portrait of a man dated 1650 by Jan Lievens (1607-1674). The colours and style betray a Venetian influence. Asking price: €650,000.
Design Highlights at PAN
This year for the first time there will be a Design Pavillion with work by famous international designers of the twentieth century. One rarity is the wooden and glass sideboard by Rietveld, made in 1940 for the Amsterdam department store Metz & Co, now offered by Caspar Ansingh for €50,000. My Modern has a coffee table with a thick asymmetrical glass top and a black stained wooden support by Isamu Noguchi, IW50. Noguchi was a sculptor, and this is evident in his designs. Asking price: €6,000. Kunsthandel Frans Leidelmeijer has on offer Sexy Relaxy, a red synthetic chair by Richard Hutten from 2001 for €15,000. The chair derives its name from the split seat.
Louis XV
Kollenburg Antiquairs has a Dutch Louis XV lady’s secretaire attributed to Matthijs Horrix. It stands on elegant double-curved feet and has unusual marquetry. Asking price: €85,000. There is also a French chandelier from the same period: 160 cm with 540 crystals. Similar smaller-sized chandeliers hang in Versailles. The asking price is around €150,000.
Applied Art
The Friesian columned cabinet from around 1620 offered by Van Aalst Antiquiteiten is a monumental piece. The cabinet, with a highly ornamental cornice, has diagonally placed columns. Bruil & Brandsma Antiquairs’s stand is furnished with rare seventeenth-century panelling from a room in Hindeloopen. The panelling is complete with a mantelshelf, little doors from three box beds and a display case. For people of modest means, Polak Works of Art is offering a collection of more than one hundred eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dishes from the Swat Valley in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are painted with geometric and abstract floral patterns in green, yellow and white. Prices: €250 and €350.
Masterpieces of Jewellery
Steltman Juwelier has a huge 152 carat kunzite gem. Kunzite is a rare lilac stone, named after George Kunz, precious stone expert at Tiffany’s in New York. The kunzite stone hangs from a rose gold necklace and costs€44,500. Verbeek-Schuttelaar Antiquair is showing a pièce unique by Boucheron from early 1900. It is a platinum pendant with flower motifs, set with old diamond chips and two natural oriental pearls, one white and one grey.
Contemporary
Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge has two striking 1992 silk-screen prints of matadors from the bullfight series by Georg Dokupil (1954). He incorporated a pigment from bull’s faeces in the ink. Asking price: €4,500 each. Contempo Galerie has twelve remarkable works by Juan Béjar (1946), a magical realist from Spain. He portrays children as small adults, imprisoned in their environment and surroundings. The Dutch photographer Marjan Teeuwen makes photographs of piled-up waste material in one colour, arranged horizontally and vertically. They can be found at Cokkie Snoei Hedendaagse kunst.
Geef om Cultuur Foundation Launch
The Geef om Cultuur (Care For Culture) Foundation is launching at PAN Amsterdam. In the spring of 2009 this not-for-profit foundation will be opening the Geef om Cultuur Centre, which aims to act as an intermediary between private donors and art organizations. On 24 November a panel will discuss the use of this mediation. The foundation was set up by Renée Steenbergen, author of De Nieuwe Mecenas, which she will be signing on Sunday between 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. at the Interbook stand.
Van Lanschot Bankiers is the main sponsor of PAN Amsterdam 2008.
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under Press, Illustrations. If you would like to attend the forum discussion on 24 November please contact PAN Amsterdam. For further information:
PAN Amsterdam, Denise Hermanns / Titia Vellenga / Eveline Bots / Gemma Swanenberg,T: +31 (0) 20 5491018 / E:
Contact for PAN Amsterdam in Belgium and Luxembourg:
Truuske Verloop, T: +32 497 485 967 / E: