Art- and Antiques Fair PAN Amsterdam ended with a record number of 41.960 visitors, 18.4% higher than last year’s figure. Several museums were buyers at the fair. The Rembrandt House Museum acquired a small version of Louis Royer’s statue of Rembrandt in Rembrandtplein. Teylers Museum in Haarlem bought a painting by Paul Gabriël with an artist - either Mauve or Tholen - in a landscape. A self-portrait of the painter Nicolaes Rijnenburg went to De Lakenhal in Leiden. Next year PAN Amsterdam will run from 21 to 28 November in the Parkhal of Amsterdam RAI Exhibition Centre.
Purchases by Museums
In nine days the 23rd PAN Amsterdam fair broke all records with 41,960 visitors. At 137, the number of exhibitors was 7% up on 2008. A strikingly large number of museum representatives visited PAN Amsterdam this year. The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag enriched its collection with an 18th-century silver offertory box from Batavia purchased from John Endlich Antiquairs (Haarlem). Armchair 04 by J.J.P. Oud, sold by De Andere Tijd (Kampen), has gone to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The Dutch Museum of Lithography in Valkenswaard and the Amsterdam Museum of Bags and Purses also bought at PAN.
Notable Sales
• A Dutch collector bought Bomschuiten in the Breakers by H.W. Mesdag from Kunstgalerij Albricht (asking price € 325,000).
• The Chinese Culture Promotion Society, Beijing, bought a rare brisé fan with diamonds and rubies from Dekker Antiquairs (Amsterdam) for € 23,000.
• An Italian visitor took View of Naples back to Italy. She bought this watercolour from Robert Schreuder Antiquair, specialists in Grand Tour objects that were brought back as souvenirs from Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• A French collector bought a Dutch Louis XV cabinet from Pieter Hoogendijk.
The main sponsor of PAN Amsterdam is Van Lanschot Bankiers, art-lovers since 1737.
