Joaquín Torres García, Constructivismo (TSF), 1931
At TEFAF New York, Per Knutås, head of conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, dives into the Montefiore Mainz Mahzor, a rare Hebrew illuminated manuscript and the first recipient of this year’s TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, while Paul Jackson of Jacksons explores a rare cabinet by architect, artist, and designer Josef Frank that features a unique map by Georges Peltier that took 20 years to produce. Janine Cirincione of Sean Kelly discusses a recent portrait by Kehinde Wiley and the longstanding history and symbolism of the genre, and Leon Tovar of Leon Tovar Gallery tells the story of the prolific Latin American artist Joaquín Torres-García and the painting Constructivismo (TSF), a composition embodying a union between abstraction and figuration. Finally, Martin Clist of Charles Ede discusses a monumental Roman bust with a fascinating provenance