International art fair, TEFAF | New York | Fall, a joint venture between TEFAF Maastricht and Artvest Partners, announces gallery participants for its inaugural edition, taking place at the historic Park Avenue Armory from Friday, October 21 through Wednesday, October 26, 2016. The fair will feature 93 leading dealers of fine art, design, furniture and jewelry from antiquity through the early 20th Century.

Applications for TEFAF | New York | Fall 2016 were open to galleries from around the world. The new fair was met with such enthusiasm, that the organization received a multiple of applications for the number of spaces available for such a prime midtown Manhattan location. A Selection Committee was formed and a review process created to provide a balanced and objective analysis of each gallery’s qualifications and potential fit for a New York-based fair.

The Selection Committee was comprised of four members of the Board of Trustees of TEFAF Maastricht and four external experts from the US, who represented different sectors of the art world. The Selection Committee’s recommendations were reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors of TEFAF New York.

The resulting list of 2016 exhibitors are leaders in their respective fields internationally, a number of them either showing for the first time in New York, or returning after a long absence. Exhibitions will flow throughout the Armory’s landmark building encompassing the Wade Thompson Drill Hall and extending to both the first and second floors of the Armory’s period rooms, creating a fair of unprecedented depth and impact in New York City. Tom Postma Design, celebrated for its innovative work with leading museums, galleries, and art fairs, has developed designs for the fair that interplay with the spectacular spaces while giving them a lighter, contemporary look and feel.

The beneficiaries of the Opening Night Reception on October 21 will be the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering as well as the acclaimed cultural programs produced by the Park Avenue Armory.

TEFAF will release more information about the programming and partnerships with prominent and upcoming international cultural players in the next few months.

TEFAF | New York | Spring, a second annual fair focused on Modern and Contemporary Art and Design, will premier in May 2017 and run from Thursday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 9.

TEFAF | New York | Fall - Exhibitor List
A La Vieille Russie A.Aardewerk Antiquair Juwelier Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd. Agnews Alberto Di Castro Alessandra Di Castro Alexandre Reza Åmells Ancient Art of the New World, Inc. Antiquariaat Forum B.V. Apter-Fredericks Ltd. Ariadne Galleries Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam Axel Vervoordt Ben Janssens Oriental Art Ltd. Benappi Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC Blumka Gallery Bowman Sculpture Burzio Cahn International AG Carlo Orsi Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz Charles Ede Ltd. Christophe de Quénetain Colnaghi Daniel Crouch Rare Books Daniel Katz Ltd. De Jonckheere Dickinson Didier Aaron, Inc. Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books EGUIGUREN Arte de Hispanoamérica Elle Shushan Eric Coatalem Erik Thomsen Gallery French & Company LLC G. Sarti Antiques Ltd. Galerie Chenel Galerie Didier Claes Galerie Jacques Germain Galerie Kevorkian Galerie Meyer - Oceanic & Eskimo Art Galerie Sanct Lucas GmbH Galleria Carlo Virgilio & Co Gallery Perrin Gregg Baker Asian Art Haboldt · Pictura Hemmerle Heribert Tenschert-Antiquariat Bibermühle AG Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc. Jaime Eguiguren- Arte y Antigüedades Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd Joan Wijermars Jorge Welsh Works of Art, Ltd. Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung GmbH Koopman Rare Art Kunstgalerij Albricht Kunsthandel S. Mehringer OHG Kunstkammer Georg Laue Les Enluminures Lillian Nassau LLC Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art Lowell Libson Ltd MacConnal-Mason Gallery Menconi + Schoelkopf Michele Beiny Inc. Mireille Mosler, Ltd. Moretti Fine Art Ltd. Otto Jakob Otto Naumann, Ltd. Peter Finer Phoenix Ancient Art Primavera Gallery Richard Green Richard L. Feigen & Co. Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings Röbbig München Robilant+Voena Ronald Phillips Ltd Rupert Wace Ancient Art Ltd. S. J. Shrubsole, Corp. Safani Gallery Inc. Sam Fogg Ltd. Shapero Rare Books Siegelson Taylor | Graham Tomasso Brothers Fine Art Vanderven Oriental Art Véronique Bamps Wallace Chan Wartski

About TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation)
TEFAF produces one of the world’s leading fine art fairs. Held annually in Maastricht, Netherlands, it has come to define excellence in the way the art world does business. TEFAF sets a standard for collectors, connoisseurs, curators and other art enthusiasts from all over the world. The Foundation supports several charities, such as the Prince Claus Fund’s Cultural Emergency Response Program, the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund and Cancer Research at Maastricht University Medical Centre.

About Park Avenue Armory
Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York by enabling artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience, unconventional work that cannot be mounted in traditional performance halls and museums. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall-reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations-and array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory offers a new platform for creativity across all art forms.