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Daniel Crouch

Daniel Crouch Rare Books, London and New York

Specialty: Rare books and maps

With two new New York editions, and US collectors curtailing international travel for economic and political reasons, some dealers are sceptical—but remain hopeful

Tefaf a Maastricht, la fiera d’arte e antiquariato più importante del mondo che si svolge nel polo fieristico MECC stamattina ha aperto i battenti ai collezionisti e accoglierà i visitatori fino al 19 marzo. Già ieri sera una assaggio delle opere in fiera è stata offerta ai collezionisti ospiti della cena di gala: i 275 galleristi presenti con opere dall’epoca egizia ai giorni nostri erano negli stand per gli ultimi ritocchi. Le opere rigorosamente sottoposte al vetting (verifica di autenticità e provenienza) hanno un valore assicurato di oltre 3 miliardi di euro. La fiera, palcoscenico per mercanti d’arte e specialisti di tutto il mondo, presenta opere preziose, in una panoramica di oltre 7.000 anni di storia, acune sono offerte sul mercato per la prima volta dopo decenni.

Politics and arts come together at the thirtieth edition of Tefaf Maastricht, which opens Friday 10th of March. The British dealer in rare books and prints Daniel Crouch is furnishing a themed stand on Europe and Brexit. ‘A joke of course, but with a serious tone to it,’ he says. Because through a variety of costly atlases and old maps he makes it clear to the public that our idea of the age-old European nation states with each their own national identity is nothing more than a myth.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books of 4 Bury Street, St. James, London has recently opened a shop in New York at 24 East 64th Street. The firm is a specialist in antique atlases, maps, plans, sea charts and voyages dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and is a partnership founded by Daniel Crouch and Nick Trimming.

The British rare maps and books dealer Daniel Crouch is preparing a Brexit-themed booth for his stand at the Tefaf art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands city made famous for its role in the European Union’s recent history. Crouch, who opened a new space in New York in January, says his fair booth will explore “the myth of boundaries and the nation state”.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books opened launched its New York City premises on Wednesday with a Burns Night celebration.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books will mark the opening of their New York Gallery at 24 East 64th Street with a launch party on Burns Night (25 January 2017). A small selection of Celtic cartography will be on display, in keeping with the traditional Scottish celebration, as well as the gallery’s reputation as specialist dealers in fine and rare antique maps, plans, sea charts and voyages.

The venerable European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf), held in Maastricht since 1988, has pulled off its first mini-edition for older art in New York, an event that closed on Wednesday. Organisers revamped the Park Avenue Armory to great effect and hosted 94 galleries with pieces from antiquity to the early 20th century. With nearly a third of booths of the Maastricht flagship, Tefaf New York Fall was more digestible and focused (a separate Modern and contemporary version will be launched in May.)

It was in my last column that I wrote just how busy St. James’s specialist dealer in rare maps and atlases Daniel Crouch is at the moment. I was highlighting his exhibition of 200 prints and panoramas of 600 years of London which he showed at Frieze Masters before moving on to TEFAF New York where he currently shares a stand with Dutch rare books dealers Antiquariaat Forum.

Say “Maastricht” to anyone in a certain precinct of the art world and they will know you are talking about TEFAF Maastricht, the grande dame of art fairs, specializing in extremely high-end art and antiques. Now comes TEFAF New York, a new fair scheduled to appear twice a year at the Park Avenue Armory, in the fall and the spring, and repeat that museum-quality level.