Auction French bottling

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Perhaps interesting to talk about the French system Organizations auctions.

In France, there are no major auction houses such as Christies and Sotheby's, but there are plenty of independent auctioneers (commissaires-priseurs); legal status similar to their status as a notary, that is their profession is not commercial. Many of them are grouped, but these associations are modest in size. Until recently, the auctioneers had a monopoly on organizing public auctions, which protected them from entering the market above the giant Anglo-Saxon, but the EU has ordered France to eliminate this monopoly, which was done by the Act of 10/07/2000, which is also allowed to create "a society organization of public tenders" are in fact equivalent auktsiionnyh homes.

I'm at home, this historic retreat, it is important to understand that such an organization was virtually eliminates the possibility of unit auctions with many items of very high quality, except for the sale of a large collection (but usually the sellers prefer to entrust this Christies and Sotheby's). It is also difficult to find interesting objects, in spite of the fact that in France organized thematic auction. On the other hand, it increases the opportunity to make more or less sluyachaynuyu good purchase. In any case, with regard to Russian art, home auktsmnny Lombray-Текам (Lombrail-Teucquam) had already 2 of the auction, and you could say that their prices were lower than for equivalent subjects in England and the United States.

In Paris, the vast majority of trades takes place at the Hotel Drouot (Hôtel Drouot), all of which, of course, heard of but which is not an auction house, is a commercial enterprise that provides rooms. storage facilities and necessary personnel to conduct trades, and also publishes the weekly "Gazette de Drouot", which outlines future bidding.
Drouot has several buildings for the auction, the most prestigious of which was "Drouot-Montaigne", where the most promising auctions, and where exhibitions are regularly held the most interesting items that will be put up for auction during the season. Whenever invited to any collector who is trusted sites selected for this show to your liking, for example, last year received an invitation V. Semenihin.
Every auctioneer or auctioneers group itself decides whether they will publish a directory of trades, and so many auctions take place without the catalog. Generally it is difficult to imagine a variety of trades in the Drouot - along with very valuable objects there exhibited collapse, which can be seen only in the wild "flea markets"!

One of the most famous of French auction houses - Arkyurial (Artcurial) often holds its own auctions in a luxurious mansion - Hotel Dassault (Hôtel Dassault) at the corner of the Champs Elysees and the Avenue Monten.V They are currently preparing its first sale of Russian art, to be held in December.

In conclusion, I attach (at least now I will try to) a list of all the auction houses conducting auctions at Drouot.