What is an auction house?
Auction house is a service organization, which mainly acts as a bridge between buyers and sellers. Its function is to identify the authenticity, advantages and disadvantages of goods, evaluate the value of goods, publicize goods, organize auctions, make goods sell well, and draw commissions from them in proportion.
World famous auction institution
Sosby
Of course, Sotheby's is the largest and oldest auction house in the world. Sotheby's history can be traced back to more than 200 years ago. On March 1744, 1 1, Samuel Baker, a great British bookseller, sold a jazz collection in a hotel in Covent Garden, London. This shop is considered to be the first modern auction. After Baker's death, his nephew John Sotheby's was appointed as the heir. John named his uncle's auction company after his surname, and Sotheby's was born. At that time, good paintings and valuables were mainly traded privately by businessmen, and the way of auction was not optimistic. This situation lasted almost until the 1950s, when a man named Peter Cecil Wilson took charge of Sotheby's after World War II. He was determined to challenge the monopoly of dealers on famous paintings. Wilson introduced the "seller's minimum deposit" system, and provided the deposit to the auction client before the auction, so as to dispel the price concerns of those who own treasures. From then on, Sotheby's was highly respected in the art market until it rained. 1983 Sotheby's is due to poor management.
Norwegian turn
Christie's, another British auction house, is Sotheby's biggest competitor. Christie was founded in 1766, 22 years later than bibis, but its founder James Christie quickly gained a reputation. Around 1785, Christie's became famous for a series of sensational auctions: first, it auctioned a large number of precious oil paintings collected by an ace spy in the period of King Louis XV of France, and then planned the jewelry auction in which French nobles and ladies were guillotined. The whole 20th century is a history in which two auction houses compete for high and low. Sotheby's has a slight advantage in the number of auction world records. From 1994 to 1997, the new heads of two auction houses reached an illegal conspiracy to raise auction commissions to monopolize behind-the-scenes transactions in the market, which was investigated by the US Department of Justice. When the scandal was exposed in 2000, the trial of 200 1 caused a sensation all over the world.
Philippian
1796 independent portal. Phillips auction house has lagged far behind Sotheby's and Christie's for hundreds of years, and there is no equal qualification at all. Until June, 1999 165438+ was bought by Louis Vuitton boss bernard arnault and merged into LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods group. Arnault used two scandal-ridden auction houses to invest heavily in Phillips. Phillips is good at impressionist works, modern and contemporary art and furniture auction.