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Hôtel Drouot is a large auction place in Paris, known for fine art, antiques, and antiquities. It consists of 16 halls hosting 70 independent auction firms, which operate under the umbrella grouping of Drouot . The firm's main location, called Drouot-Richelieu, is situated on the Rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, on a site once ...
As of 2014, it was the third largest auction house in Paris after Christie's and Sotheby's. [1] In 2022, Artcurial celebrated its 20th anniversary. [4] April 2023 Artcurial acquired Beurret Bailly Widmer Auktioner, an Auction house in Switzerland. [4][5] Beurret Bailly was founded in 2011 by Nicolas Beurret and Emmanuel Bailly that specialized ...
Rare dinosaur skeleton, known as ‘Barry,’ goes on sale in Paris auction. Reuters. September 18, 2023 at 9:10 AM. ... from Paris auction house Drouot, where the sale will take place.
Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793 ...
Christie's American branch at Rockefeller Center in New York. Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [3] It is owned by Groupe Artémis, the ...
The Musée d'Orsay (UK: / ˌmjuːzeɪdɔːrˈseɪ / MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: / mjuːˈzeɪ -/ mew-ZAY -, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]) (English: Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French ...
Koller Auctions Ltd.[1] (German: Koller Auktionen AG) is a leading Swiss auction house specializing in international art auctions. Founded in 1958 by Pierre Koller it is among the leading art auctioneers in Switzerland. [2][3] In 2016, the auction house achieved the highest turnover with Swiss art of all auction houses worldwide. [4]
Boulonnais horse. The Boulonnais, also known as the "White Marble Horse", [1] is a draft horse breed. It is known for its large but elegant appearance and is usually gray, although chestnut and black are also allowed by the French breed registry. Originally there were several sub-types, but they were crossbred until only one is seen today.