After eight years at the helm of the auction house, the former enarque, who cut his teeth at the Center Pompidou and at the Ministry of Culture, hands over to the one who headed the America branch.
François Pinault, the French billionaire, founder of the Artémis and Kering companies, has always decided his destiny alone. At the head of his collection, the “Pinault collection”, located at the Palazzo Grassi and the Pointe de la Douane in Venice and, since 2021, at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the Breton businessman, 88, anticipates the future today. And in this case his succession – although the word does not want to be spoken.
It is time for François Pinault to hand over the baton at the head of his collection. He chose Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie’s since 2016 whom he himself had poached. Cerutti was then CEO of Sotheby’s France (then an American company and since owned by Patrick Drahi) which he had succeeded in brilliantly raising to first place in France. At the end of his eight years at the helm of Christie’s, he managed to ensure that the house maintained its course during the Covid pandemic, impacting…
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