Kenneth Baker Reports From Maastricht

The European Fine Art Fair is still the gold standard for art fairs. “With seven- and eight-figure prices quoted wherever I inquired, I tried to make a mantra of John Russell’s deathless line ‘No amount of money is worth a great work of art.’ But the big artistic thrills often came in modest — though not modestly priced — form, such as the Fragonard drawings shown by Agnew’s of London and New York, two rare Charles Rennie Mackintosh watercolors offered by London’s Fine Art Society…”