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Old Masters and Roman statues vie for the attention of well-heeled collectors at Dutch art fair

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Old Masters, Roman statues, modern furniture, tribal masks and vintage watches are vying for the attention of well-heeled collectors as the TEFAF art fair opened on Thursday in the southern Netherlands.

The show takes place in a cavernous exhibition center transformed in just over a week of frantic work into a mega-gallery. Its eclectic collection looks and feels like a mashup of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, New York's Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.

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