Hotel Drouot

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The current building of the Hôtel Drouot (left)

The Hôtel Drouot is a large auction house in Paris that sells works of art, jewelry, antiques, books, luxury clothing and vintage wines, among other things. Drouot SA is the public limited company that operates the Hôtel Drouot and is joined by 74 auctioneers.

The headquarters are located at 9, rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement , called Drouot-Richelieu , and it has 16 exhibition halls. Further auctions will take place in the branches 12-Drouot , Drouot-Montmartre and Drouot-Véhicules . The weekly Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot provides information on the offers and results of the auctions.

history

Hôtel des ventes de Drouot, 1852
Albert Bettannier : Auction at the Hôtel Drouot , 1921

The Hôtel Drouot was founded on June 1st, 1852. The street on which the building is located and after which it was named refers to Count Antoine Drouot .

In the years 1976 to 1980 the existing building was demolished and rebuilt according to the plans of Jean-Jacques Fernier and André Biro. During the construction period, the auctions took place in the former Gare d'Orsay , now the art museum. Since 1999, monitors on each of the three floors have been providing information about the exhibitions and current auctions.

The Parisian Hôtel Drouot has long been the most important center in the world for auctioning works of art. This position is currently held by the internationally operating British auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s . On July 10, 2000, the long-standing monopoly that auctions held in France could only be held in the Hôtel Drouot was dropped by a court order.

The largest auction house in France has around 5,000 visitors every day and around 600,000 objects are sold annually. The auctions are held daily from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. except Sundays.

Auctions (selection)

Frontispiece of the catalog of an auction in May 1914. It shows Renoir's Baigneuse from 1895.

Well-known sales included paintings from the studios of Eugène Delacroix and Ingres (1864, 1867), paintings from the estate of Gustave Courbet (1881), the estate of Édouard Manet (1884), the collection of the Goncourt brothers (1897), the Atelier of Edgar Degas , the memorabilia and jewelery of Tsar Alexander II. More recently the estate of Princess Soraya , Brassaï and Marcel Marceau (2009), the Jacques Prévert collection (June 2010) as well as memorabilia and straw hats by Maurice Chevalier (December 2013) to the known sales.

The estate of the French surrealist André Breton was auctioned in April 2003, more details can be found in the article on Breton .

literature

  • Paul Guillaumin: Drouot, here et aujourd'hui . Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-85917-060-X

Web links

Commons : Hôtel Drouot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Grimm-Weissert: Paris Remains a Collector's Eldorado , handelsblatt.com, August 18, 2012, accessed on September 6, 2014
  2. ^ Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot
  3. ↑ L'Hôtel Drouot: la plus importante salle des ventes de France , gralon.net, accessed on September 6, 2014
  4. ↑ Sotheby's puts an end to monopoly in France ( Memento from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ,wirtschaftsblatt.at, June 29, 2001, accessed on September 7, 2014
  5. ↑ Therese Hilbold: 10 to 100,000 euros: The treasures of the Paris auction house Drouot within reach ( memento of March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), paris-kontrast.com, June 30, 2014, accessed on September 6, 2014


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