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.
Hôtel Drouot in an old postcard"An Auction at the Hotel Drouot" by Albert Bettannier.
Frontispiece for a significant auction held at Drouot in May 1914, showing lot 8, Auguste Renoir, Baigneuse, 1895, 80 x 65 cm, similar to Baigneuse aux cheveux longs, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
The Hôtel Drouot was inaugurated on 1 June 1852.
During World War II and the German occupation of France, a large number of artworks from collections that had been owned by Jews passed through Drouot, which was as a result included on the Art Looting Investigation Unit list of Red Flag names.[4][5]
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.
Hundreds of sacred relics were sold at the Hôtel Drouot auctions. Those being sold include Native American, Eskimo and pre-Columbian artefacts. Despite the pleas of the United States embassy, urging a stop to the 2014 sale of items cherished by the Navajo and Hopi people, the items were sold at auction. The Navajo Nation was only able to buy back seven of the possibly 270 items that were being sold.[6][7]
^"La Gazette Drouot - L'hebdo des ventes aux enchères". gazette-drouot.com.
^. antiquestradegazette.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
^"Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 13 October 2023. Drouot, Hotel. Paris, 6 rue Rossini. Most important art auction firm in Paris, which was allowed to operate during the occupation. Used by the Germans and collaborationist French dealers.
^Polack, Emmanuelle (2019). Le marché de l'art sous l'Occupation: 1940-1944. Paris: Tallandier. ISBN979-10-210-2089-4.
^"Navajos Had to Buy Their Own Sacred Relics Back at an Auction". RYOT News.
^"Native Americans try to block French auction of sacred artefacts". Yahoo! News. 14 December 2014.
Sources
Guillaumin, Paul (1986). Drouot, hier et aujourd'hui. Paris: Les Éditions de l'Amateur. ISBN2-85917-060-X
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