Modern & Contemporary art
Several new contemporary dealers are joining TEFAF in 2006, further strengthening the contemporary art in the Modern section. Newcomers to the Fair, Gagosian Gallery (London/New York) is bringing a Rachel Whiteread sculpture and works by Twombly and Warhol while Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago) is offering a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg of an ashtray with seven butts (no.1) from 1968. Also new to the Fair, Pace Wildenstein (New York) is bringing a very recent Oldenburg, Beached Lutes - Version Two, 2005, three lutes of decorated muslin which was made in collaboration with Coosje van Bruggen, his artistic partner since 1978. Sperone Westwater (New York) is bringing a 2005 work by Julian Schnabel, Sonanbul, executed in mixed media while Acquavella Galleries (New York) is showing an important early still life by Georges Braque, La Table.
Moeller Fine Art (New York) are showing an erotic beach scene by Eric Fischl, The Day the Shah Ran By (no.2). Jablonka Galerie (Cologne) have an even more risqué Bathroom Scene from 2005 by the same artist.

American artist Helen Frankenthaler worked for six years (from 1982 to 1988) on her masterpiece Gateway, a colored intaglio print that she worked into twelve different three-leaf bronze folding screens. It is the only time that she combined painting, printing and sculpture. The National Gallery in Washington and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra each have an example. David Tunick (New York) is offering a Gateway screen (no.3) for sale at TEFAF.

Painting, drawings and prints section
This section of the Fair acts as a perennial draw for collectors from around the globe. French & Company (New York) is bringing a large painting by the Belgian symbolist Léon Fréderic, whose work rarely comes on to the market. Nature of Abundance was originally one of five panels, the other four being in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Weiss Gallery (London) has a perfectly preserved portrait of Madeleine le Clerc du Tremblay (no.4) by the French artist, Francois Clouet and Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts (New York) is offering an interesting portrait of Sir Joseph Duveen, the great art dealer, by the Swiss artist Count Adolfo Muller-Ury. This portrait adorns the cover of the recently published biography of Duveen. Noortman Master Paintings (Maastricht) is showing Rembrandt's Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Red Doublet (1633), while Moretti (Florence) is bringing a small, striking 14th-century portrait by Paolo Veneziano of a bishop in his robes (no.5) in colorful tempera on board. David Koetser Gallery (Zurich) and Haboldt & Co. (Paris) are each showing a still life by Adriaen Coorte; Five South Seas Shells and a Still-life of Strawberries in a Wan-Li Bowl on a Ledge.

Wildenstein & Co (New York), who is taking part in a fair for the first time in their history, are bringing a winter scene of the Gare Montparnasse in the snow (no.6), 1913,. by Albert Marquet

Antiques & objets d'art
Luis Elvira (Oropesa del Mar) will be showing a unique 12th-century Catalan statue, Christ in Majesty (no.7), on which the original expressive polychrome has been preserved. Brimo de Laroussilhe (Paris) is showing a well-preserved 13th century reliquary decorated with paintings of Christ, Mary, John and Clare (no.8), the saint whose relics it originally contained. The chest comes from the collection of the great American collector Samuel Kress. Among their most interesting pieces, Albrecht Neuhaus (Würzburg) has an important example of 18th century chinoiserie; a secretaire painted with Chinese landscapes, figures and other depictions. The secretaire was probably made for Clemens August, the Elector of Cologne.