I do 100 sales per year in Neuilly Lyon and Drouot

Is there still a pilot at Drouot A few days of its reopening, hotel sales had still not decided, before a Board of Directors is announcing hosted yesterday evening, the problem of his handlers after the review of the Union of the Commissionaires in July. "Drouot must completely reform." We will not repeat the same under the pretext that they are grouped in a new company! "proclaimed his side Claude Aguttes, one of the auctioneers the most active of the square, appalled for weeks President of Drouot Holding, Georges Delettrez, absent subscribers, and its Board of Directors with. Others, such as the auctioneer Alexander Million, were more supportive, believing that "the Savoyards are part of the history of the place and have an experience which should not be deprived". Contacted, the leaders of Drouot is refused to any comment, while the sales Hall communications agency merely to suggest that transitional would be probably adopted. The final choice, among the handlers who responded to the invitation to tender, will intervene to all saints, no later than early 2011... Pending management is forward 11.5 million of work launched this summer for the comfort of clients and the securing of objects.

But real restoration in question of the governance of Drouot, point. A working group yet met every Monday for six months to think about. A Director General was appointed, but the latter does not have free rein. "The President did not measure the gravity of the situation", worries Hervé Chayette, head of the national Union of the houses of voluntary sales (Symev). "A President auctioneer is not necessarily talent Manager," said David Normann, of the House Ader Nordmann.

"Group policy".

Immobility is also explained by the fact that this Memorial of the atypical art market shows a good ability of resistance to the scandal and the economic crisis. Found at Drouot, of the innocuous trinket to much rare. "I do 100 sales per year, in Neuilly, Lyon and Drouot." The most prestigious are still made in this particular hotel attended by 5,000 to 6,000 people every day, come attend 20 sales. "This attendance exist nowhere else in the world", notes Claude Aguttes. Yet some auctioneers are impatient, fearing the effects of amalgam in terms of image that could penalize the profession. Other open premises outside of Drouot, sometimes just in the face, offering schedules and the much more flexible to reach assets, when the Parisian hotel closes at 18 hours.

The young guard deplored "the lack of ambition of Drouot, with a mechanical dividends over investment policy!" and a majority of shareholders that will soon be in operation. Françoise Mariani-Ducray, who heads the Higher Council of the sales, the limited powers control authority, believes that "Drouot must lead a group strategy and take advantage of his notoriety in the international for to develop." "But, before to tackle its economic model, must be already addressed issues of organization."

In the entourage of Michèle Alliot-Marie, it is not far from thinking that leaving rot the situation it will be easier... Because, on the ropes, auctioneers, which locked the capital in 2002, in response to the attack on Barclays and Pierre Bergé, could be forced to release the ballast and to be more receptive to contenders, corporations or individuals, who have expressed interest to the authors of the report.