Ray Waterhouse was pleased to assist with exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht under a previous gallery name.
One centrepiece was be a beautiful oil painting by the American Abstract Expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell, painted at her studio in Vétheuil on the River Seine in 1972 – typical of this period but more lyrical and indeed ‘European' than many of her American paintings. This was complemented by a group of Abstract Expressionist works by the American Norman Bluhm, the German-American Friedel Dzubas, the Dutch-American Willem de Kooning, and the Canadian Jean-Paul Riopelle.
The other centrepieces were two works, each more than 2m high, by Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of ‘blockbuster' exhibition at Tate Modern and today one of the most influential artists in both Europe and America. Further highlights included an important 1932 oil painting by Fernand Léger, a 1950 beach scene by the same artist, and a 1913 cubist composition by the Mexican painter, Angél Zarraga. Meanwhile among the highly collectable works on paper that we showed was an interesting composition by the Italian master Gino Severini.