Drouot hotel

The Hôtel Drouot is the principal saleroom of Paris. It is located Rue Drouot in the 9 {{E}} district and is property of a subsidiary company of the BNP Paribas, which rents it with the Holding Drouot S. has . , this holding which depends on the Company of the appraisers sub-leases the rooms with the appraisers, the amount of the hiring is given according to the turnover carried out at the time of the auction. The Company of the Appraisers has another place for certain sales of prestige: Drouot-Montaigne, Which occurred Montaigne.

The Drouot Hotel was inaugurated on June 1st 1852, and deeply transformed at the end of the years 1980. The Drouot Hotel is located on grounds of the old manor of Pinon de Quincy. From 1976 to 1980, during work of the new Drouot Hotel, the sales took place in the old station of Orsay. It comprises 16 rooms of Auction. These 16 rooms are distributed in the following way: From the 1 to the 7 rooms on the first floor, these last and rooms 5 and 6 can, each one, being joined together to form vaster spaces. At the ground floor, the 8 and the 9 can be open independently of the remainder of the Drouot Hotel, thanks to the access on the street Rossini. With the basement, of the 10 to the 16, the room n° 12 does not have a store and is rather used for the sales of objects as small size, stamps, postcards. With the n° 7 of the street Rossini, a room is also used as auction-room with an appraiser. It is one of the principal places of the market of art on a world level, in particular for antiquities, the Art nouveau and the Art déco, the books and African art. It is one of the places or is exerted the trade of Antiquaire.

Anecdote

The film How to steal a million dollars begins in a room with the biddings from the Drouot Hotel by the sale from one (false) Cézanne.

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