Hotel Drouot

By on 20/08/2009 in Attractions

Hotel Drouot rooms

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Hotel Drouot is a large auction house in Paris, for fine art, antiques and antiquities, consisting of 16 halls hosting 70 independent auction firms, operating under the umbrella grouping of Drouot.

It is situated on Rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, on a site once occupied by the Theatre de l’Academie Royale de Musique, with a number of outlying locations. The nearest metro station is Richelieu – Drouot (Paris Metro).

Details of forthcoming auctions are published in the weekly Gazette de l’Hotel Drouot, sold at newsstands and by subscription.

In 2008 Hotel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Artcurial and Tajan

History

The Hotel Drouot was inaugurated on 1 June 1852. From 1976 to 1980, while its present building was being constructed, sales took place in the former Gare d’Orsay. In 2000, reform of the monopolistic French auction laws, regulated through the system of commissaires-priseurs, opened Drouot up to international competition. It is now owned by a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.  (Official Website: www.drouot.com , Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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