“We have works here [priced] from $4,000 to $4 million,” said Leon Tovar, founder of his eponymous New York gallery. “If the quality is there, we bring it—the collectors that come to TEFAF are super qualified.” The gallery’s booth is anchored by one of the more stunning works at the fair, Rufino Tamayo’s Claustrofobia (1954). The painting captures an anguished, ambiguous crimson figure, trapped in the confines of an even more ambiguous enclosure, painted with a vivacity that makes it easy to see why the artist is said to have influenced the likes of Francis Bacon. The gallery also presents a wall of outstanding geometric and spiral works on paper by Emma Reyes, whose work is currently included in the main show at this year’s Venice Biennale.
