about us
HVMC,
Auction house
Monte Carlo
The Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo is intended to provide a permanent expertise and auction service.
Specialties: jewelry, watches, modern and contemporary art, ancient art, furniture, works of art, drawings, archaeology, vintage, wines...
We rely on a large network of experts whose specialties are as varied as old and modern paintings, sculpture, furniture and works of art, jewelry and watches, design, wine, goldsmithing, fashion and vintage items. The Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo wants to be an available house that can carry out estimates in complete confidentiality and free of charge, whether for sale, insurance or as part of an inventory.
A sales house
on the port of Monaco
A strategic place
Since it settles directly on the port, center of all the exchanges, located on the site of the old foundry of Monaco.
A space of 300m²
A place of reference for Monegasque auctions.
The Hôtel des Ventes offers
Its daily expertise service thanks to the staff and experts present at the study.
A recognized place
Which also hosts exhibitions, conferences and receptions.
Both electric and sharp, it has become a must for art lovers in the Principality.
An exhibition space
Our gallery welcomes you every day for appointments, advice and to direct you to our experts.
With 40m² of exhibition space, it is available for temporary exhibitions throughout the year.
Our Team
Chantal Beauvois
Jewelery specialist
Chantal Beauvois, art historian, gemologist and jewelry expert, has also worked for twenty years with Master Jacques Tajan.
She participated in particular in the realization of the prestigious retrospective and historic auction of the Maison Cartier which was held in Geneva in 1995, after a dozen preliminary exhibitions in different capitals, in Asia, in America, in the Middle East and Europe.
Franck Baille
HVMC President
Franck Baille, an expert in modern and impressionist painting, worked for twelve years with the famous auctioneer Jacques Tajan, then ran his own auction house at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris for six years.
He is the author of several books on the painting of the South of France and, moreover, is at the heart of a worldwide debate on the discovery of 65 unpublished drawings by the painter Van Gogh.
this discovery, disputed by the Museum of Amsterdam, was the subject of the edition of a book by five major world publishers including Le Seuil in France and Abrams in the United States.
The two authors are among the greatest specialists in the artist's work, curators of exhibitions at the Musée d'Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, etc.
This sketchbook was featured in the Hollywood film "At Eternity's Gate", awarded at the Venice Film Festival.