OUR HISTORY

PIASA –  Key Dates:

1st October 1996
The auction company PIASA S.A. launched at 5 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris (PIASA is an acronym of the surnames of the firm's four founders)

November 1998
The first of 12 sales from the Dora Maar Estate (the last in June 2000), which total €35,102,600

20 December 2000
French auction record for a Transition commode stamped Leleu, sold for €3,377,170 at the Hôtel Drouot

27 December 2001
PIASA S.A. bought by François Pinault’s holding company, Artemis

21 June 2002
Sale of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting Paris, Le Quai Malaquais (c.1872-75) for €2,693,000

May 2008
ARTEMIS cede 60% of the capital of PIASA S.A. to Financière PIASA, a company formed by private investors: Mme Orla Noonan & Messrs Claude Berda, Christian Blanckaert, Michel Cicurel, Jérôme Clément, Jean-Michel Darrois, Laurent Fabius, Charles-Henri Filippi, Jean de Kervasdoué, Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, Patrick Ponsolle, Serge Weinberg, Louis Schweitzer & Lionel Zinsou

November 2009
Alain Cadiou appointed Chairman & Chief Executive of PIASA S.A.

December 2009
Prestige sale of wines from the cellars of the famous La Tour d'Argent restaurant, staged at Salons Hoche in Paris

19 March 2010
Huge success for the sale at the Hôtel Drouot of the Estate of Daniel Carasso, son of the founder of Danone

14 December 2010
Yongzheng imperial vase (1723-35) sold for €5,547,000 (highest price at Drouot in 2010)

February 2011
Group Artemis cede 40% stake to Financière PIASA, whose members henceforth hold 100% of the capital of PIASA S.A.

March 2011
Appointment of Jérôme Clément as Chairman of PIASA S.A., and of Alain Cadiou as Chief Executive