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14th Anniversary 16 www.antiquesandfineart.com HIGHLIGHT S New Hope for Modern Craft Sebastian + Barquet To Exhibit Important American Design at TEFAF 2014 March 14-23, 2014 The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Center, Forum 100, 6229 GV Maastricht, Netherlands For information call 212.448.2245 or visit www.sebastianbarquet. com or www.tefaf.com Manhattan’s Sebastian+Barquet is pleased to announce its participation in the Design section at TEFAF 2014, Maastricht, the Netherlands. S+Bwill present rare and important work fromdesigners who lived and worked in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the greater Delaware Valley. New Hope grew to be amongst the most significant artist colonies of the United States, known for “Pennsylvanian Impressionism” (“New Hope School”) in the early twentieth century. In 1939, an old mill building was transformed into the Bucks County Playhouse, heralding the emergence of the performing arts in the town. It was during this milieu of renewed artistic expression and creativity in New Hope and its surrounding area that leading luminaries of the American studio craft movement would settle, interact and produce defining works of the immediate post-war period. Graduates of American architecture and art schools that gained seminal importance within the discourse of design history: George Nakashima, Paul Evans and Philip Lloyd Powell, as well as Harry Bertoia, Wharton Esherick and Toshiko Takaezu who resided in the nearby Delaware Valley, are key protagonists of American design at arguably its most influential point in the twentieth century. Incorporating nature, both in material composition and as a form source, their works drew on the bucolic surroundings that inspired generations of artists before them while eschewing parochialism and imitative styles in modern, innovative designs. Sebastian + Barquet will present a selection of works at TEFAF 2014 intended to reflect the full range of works executed by the designers of New Hope in the early post-war period. The breadth of their vision, skill and innovation is evident in pieces such as a rare and early wall- mounted cabinet by Phil Powell and Paul Evans, produced during the brief period in the 1950s when they shared a storefront, and a fine Cross-legged desk by George Nakashima, from 1987, featuring a dramatic French olive ash free-form top. GEORGE NAKASHIMA, Cross-legged “Conoid” desk, 1987. French olive ash, walnut. 29h x 72w x 38d in. $90,000 Richard Diebenkorn, Untitled, ca. 1964. Gouache on paper, 12½ x 15 in. Courtesy Van Doren Waxter. The Art Show March 5-9, 2014; gala preview March 4 Park Avenue Armory at 67th St., NYC For information visit www.artdealers.org The 26th annual Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), will feature thoughtfully curated solo, two-person, and thematic exhibitions by seventy-two of the nation’s leading art dealers. ADAA president Dorsey Waxter of Van Doren Waxter, NYC, will show the theme of “The Painted Figure.” Notes Waxter, “The beauty of the Art Show is that there is such a wide range of aesthetic approaches from the exhibiting dealers, beginning with modern and continuing to the present. Ours is a gem of a fair, representing America’s best galleries since membership in the Association is a prerequisite for participation.