This year sees the twenty-third PAN Amsterdam, national art and antiques fair. The fair attracts a huge variety of art lovers, both young and old, with antique and modern art on offer from EUR 250 to 1 million. PAN Amsterdam allows potential buyers to browse, make comparisons and purchase with confidence: each item is vetted before the fair by experts who verify quality, condition and authenticity.

This year’s fair will run from 22 to 29 November in the Parkhal, in Amsterdam’s RAI conference centre. For more information, see www.pan.nl.
 
History
The first art fair in the Netherlands—the Fine Art and Antiques Fair in Delft—was staged in 1949 and, for many years, was the country’s leading event of its kind. In 1987, six prominent Dutch antique and art dealers left the Delft fair and set up the independent Pictura Antiquairs Nationaal (PAN), now PAN Amsterdam.

In the words of one founder, Evert Douwes Sr, “The Dutch art market was ready for a new look. This change was not possible at the Fine Art and Antiques fair in Delft.” In 1993, the Delft fair joined forces with PAN Amsterdam and the largest national art fair was born. Nowadays, PAN Amsterdam hosts around 120 exhitors and 35,000 visitors each year.
 
Range
PAN Amsterdam offers an exciting combination of antique and modern: old masters alongside contemporary art; modern and antique jewellery; old and contemporary silver, ceramics and glass; antique furniture and twentieth-century design. Equally surprising is the diversity of art from Classical Antiquity and non-European cultures, including Asian, African and Pre-Columbian art, ethnic art plus new Japanese and South Korean painting. This diversity encourages many people to make impulse purchases and blend styles and periods in their own collections.

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