News 66 Art Market Susan Moore reviews TEFAF,

Maastricht and forthcoming sales 74 Collectors’ Focus

Emma Crichton-Miller on the market for medieval sculpture from Southern Germany 78 Architecture Gavin Stamp on Reykjavík’s new concert hall 80 Around the Galleries By Monique Kent Exhibitions 85 ‘Tiziano e la Nascita del Paesaggio

Moderno’ by Peter Humfrey 88 ‘Turner Inspired: In the Light of

Claude’ by Eric Shanes 90 ‘Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists’ by Mary Anne Goley 92 ‘John Chamberlain: Choices’ by

David Carrier Books 95 Off the Shelf 96 Matthew S. Witkovsky (ed.),

Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism, by Lesley Jackson 98 Marjorie E. Wieseman et al,

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence, by Desmond Shawe-Taylor 100 Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White

Smith, Van Gogh: The Life, by Alexander Adams 106 From the Archives Robert O’Byrne on the implications of the Barnes Foundation controversy

12 apollo may 2012

Avant-garde art: pp. 96–97

Turner and Claude: pp. 88–89

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