APAA’s Top Picks From TEFAF Maastricht 2026
Image Courtesy of Kunsthandel P. De Boer
The art fair season is in full swing, and APAA advisors have selected a few must-see works from this year’s TEFAF Maastricht. The fair begins with VIP Preview Days on Thursday, March 12, and Friday, March 13, and opens to the public from Saturday, March 14, through Thursday, March 19. Learn more here.
Thank you to our advisors for sharing their top picks from TEFAF Maastricht 2026.
Advisor Top Picks from TEFAF Maastricht 2026
Thalita Hamaoui, Vale de Dentro, 2026
“I have a huge affection for Odilon Redon and like the challenge this artist has taken on to have a conjunction exhibition at TEFAF. I feel there is more determination in her work; she has to speak louder than Redon himself. But still leaving a mystery behind her work.”
Oil, oil bar, and pigments on linen
120 x 110 centimeters
Presented by Marianne Boesky Gallery
Pablo Picasso, Buste de Femme d’après Cranach le Jeune II, 1958
“After 9 years in the Print Department at MoMA, I am always drawn to prints. I am excited to see John Szoke’s booth entirely dedicated to Picasso’s work on paper. This work shows Picasso’s experimentation with the linocut process and bold use of color. The image is based on a portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger from 1564. Here Picasso has swapped out Cranach’s sitter with Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s then girlfriend, a subject he returns to again and again.”
Image size: 25 5/8 x 21 1/16 inches; Sheet size: 30 5/16 x 22 3/8 inches; Framed size: 40 1/2 x 33 inches
Linocut printed in five colors (brown, yellow, red, blue, and black) on Arches wove
From the edition of 50
Signed by the artist in red crayon, lower right
Numbered 49/50 in pencil, lower left
Printed by Arnera, 1958
Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, 1958
Catalogue Raisonné (Bloch 859) (Baer 1053.C.a)
Presented by John Szoke Gallery
Carlo Monaldi, The Calling of Saint Matthew, Executed circa 1743
“I like the human touch of this work. Jesus is reaching out to Matthew, and he is wondering and surprised by what this man wants from him. I also am emotional by the knowledge that the artist himself touched and made up this work, I can see his finger marks.”
Terracotta
38.8 x 23.1 centimeters
Presented by Lullo Pampoulides Gallery
Toots Zynsky, Quieto, 2025; Toots Zynsky, Plum-headed variant, 2026
“I’m looking forward to seeing the booth of Caterina Tognon (#175), who has a gallery in Venice and regularly shows some of the most compelling sculptors working in glass today. Her presentation will include new artworks by Toots Zynsky, an American artist with an international background who uses glass beads from Murano as her foundational material.
The gallery will be showing glass sculptures made with a unique technique the artist has developed called Filet-de-verre. It involves the thermal fusion of glass threads, which are then hand-worked into the final sculptures. It will be exciting to see this technique used to achieve the seemingly pure color of the peridot green Quieto as well as the kaleidoscopic extravagance of Plum-headed variant.”
Filet-de-verre: thermoformed glass threads hand-worked by the artist
Presented by Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea
Gino Severini, Symbole de l’eucharistie, 1927
“I like this work since it is so modern but is 100 years old, not a given for many works of art!”
Papier colle and mixed media on paper
49 x 73 centimeters
Presented by Osart Gallery
