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TEFAF Maastricht Opens With Marquee Works and Multi‑Million Price Tags

Early sales highlight pricing shaped by attribution, provenance, export controls.

Overview

  • The 39th edition runs March 12–19 in Maastricht, bringing together about 278 galleries from 24 countries.
  • Agnews is presenting the Salvator Mundi (versión Ganay), linked to Leonardo’s workshop, with the price kept confidential.
  • Colnaghi is offering Velázquez’s Portrait of Don Sebastián García de Huerta at €7 million, currently limited to a Spanish buyer under a temporary export permit, with the gallery saying the value would be several times higher without restrictions.
  • Top asks include a Miró at €25 million from Landau Fine Art and large‑format Picassos topping €12 million at Gallerie de L’ Institut.
  • Spanish galleries are highly visible, with Artur Ramon showing a Ribera at €1.4 million and a Barceló at €650,000, and Caylus reporting a 1907 Isidro Nonell has been acquired by a U.S. institution.