ABOUT ART GALLERY MAASTRICHT
About thirty years ago we, Willie and Raf, started collecting antique porcelain and pottery. That is also when the idea of starting a store in antique ceramics was born. While collecting ceramics and gradually antique objects, we became increasingly interested in art. Initially this was mainly figurative art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a collector, of course you need knowledge and we immersed ourselves in applied design and art movements up to expressionism. In 2000, the supermarket around the corner where we lived became vacant. We bought the building and opened our first store in it; De Plataan in Heerlen. In 2010 we moved with our store to Schimmert, the store got a new name; De Kling. In 2023 we decided to say goodbye to our brick-and-mortar store. In the more than twenty-five years that we traded in art and antiques, we saw the strong rise of the Internet and the changing trade with it. In recent years, customers came to our store only after orienting themselves on our website. Our own tastes and interests also changed over the years. The interest in the history of the development of applied design and the history of art has remained undiminished, but in recent years our attention has increasingly been drawn to twentieth-century art and design. The changing trade plus our interest in the 20th century made us decide to change course completely in 2024. We sold De Kling’s collection and started ArtGallery Maastricht.
VALUING OR PURCHASING
We deal in modern art from the twentieth century. We do not believe you can appraise and buy at the same time, which means we have decided not to appraise for others. Nor do we take art on consignment. When purchasing, we base our price on recent auction prices (if available), the quality of the artwork and an estimate of the size and location of the market for the piece purchased. We will clearly explain at the time of purchase what the price we offer is based on. If you would like to sell pieces to us, please call to make an appointment. You can also send an email; the more information you include; photos and descriptions, the better we can judge whether we want to purchase the piece.
