Auction expansion casts doubt on Dassault salons
ArtCurial, the Paris art gallery/bookshop based at the Hôtel Dassault on the Champs-Elysées, have moved to expand their auction activity by taking a minority stake in the auction firm owned by Claude Aguttes, based in the smart Paris suburb of Neuilly.
Aguttes told the Antiques Trade Gazette that he had reached “saturation point” in his Neuilly salero…