Stuart Lochhead Sculpture, renowned for presenting exceptional works that captivate world-class museums, will return to TEFAF Maastricht for the 2025 edition. The gallery’s core display will focus on Master Sculptors and Painters from the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. Alongside these works, it will showcase a special exhibition focusing on master sculptors of the early 20th century, highlighting the interplay between figurative tradition and abstraction. The display will include remarkable works by Adolfo Wildt, Vincenzo Gemito, and Alexander Archipenko.

Among the exhibition’s highlights is a rare early marble Head of the Virgin by Adolfo Wildt (1868-1931). This seminal work was acquired by Senator Luigi della Torre at the Terza Biennale Romana in 1925, with the sale recorded in contemporary newspapers. After its debut in Rome, the sculpture gained international acclaim at exhibitions in Paris and New York. The piece is thus presented during the centenary of its creation and first exhibition, highlighting the work of a seminal European artist who is sorely underrepresented in international museum collections.

In 2024, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture sold a bust by Joseph Chinard (1756-1813), arguably the most-accomplished sculptor in post-Revolutionary France, to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. At TEFAF 2025, the gallery will feature an extraordinary terracotta Tripod by Joseph Chinard, a rare and sophisticated example of the artist’s craftsmanship. This Tripod showcases the sculptor’s interpretation of classical antiquity and contemporary French design. It remained in the artist’s workshop at his death and was rediscovered in the early twentieth century, when it was exhibited at the Louvre’s seminal 1909 monographic exhibition.

Stuart Lochhead Sculpture has a history of significant museum sales at TEFAF Maastricht. Notable successes include a bust by François Girardon acquired by the Château de Versailles (2020), a French Renaissance Madonna and Child sold to the Kimbell Art Museum (2022), and a rare terracotta relief by Massimiliano Soldani purchased by the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts (2023). In 2024, a rare cast of Striding Mars by Giambologna was acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Connecticut).