Will American buyers show up to Tefaf Maastricht?
As dealers geared up for the VIP opening of the 30th edition of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) in Maastricht on Thursday, 9 March, the question many were asking was whether US collectors and institutions would travel to Europe now that the Dutch fair has editions in New York.
In an interview in the latest edition of The Art Newspaper, Michael Plummer, the co-founder of Artvest, which teamed up with Tefaf to bring the Dutch fair to New York, said that he believed that the US editions would drive American traffic to Maastricht. The number of exhibitors in either the spring or fall New York fairs (a little over 90 each), is no match for the 275 dealers visitors will find in Maastricht. However, given that Americans have curtailed international travel in recent years for economic and political reasons, some dealers were sceptical—but remained hopeful.
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