{"id":504732,"date":"2026-03-31T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:39:14","slug":"guillaume-cerutti-departs-christies-and-other-positions-in-pinaults-companies-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504732\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie’s and other positions in Pinault\u2019s companies – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillaume Cerutti has departed all of his positions in Fran\u00e7ois Pinault\u2019s portfolio. After it was revealed last week that Cerutti was leaving his post as president of the Pinault Collection<\/a>, the Pinault family\u2019s holding company, Art\u00e9mis, announced on 27 March<\/a> that he will also leave the chairmanship of the boards of Christie\u2019s and the football club of Rennes (Brittany). No explanation was given for the break-up between the two men, which came as a complete surprise even to their entourages, sources tell The Art Newspaper.<\/p>\n

According to the statement from Art\u00e9mis, Cerutti is being replaced as the the chair of Christie\u2019s board by Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault, Fran\u00e7ois Pinault\u2019s heir and the chief executive of the luxury goods group Kering. Briefly thanking Cerutti for his services, the statement says these decisions were taken \u201cin agreement\u201d between the three men. It adds that Fran\u00e7ois Pinault, 89, will resume the role of executive president of the Pinault Collection, the billionaire’s private collection that comprises more than 10,000 works as well as museums in Paris and Venice. A Pinault Collecton spokesperson said there were no plans to appoint a new president of the organisation to replace Cerutti or an interim.<\/p>\n

Cerutti will also depart his role as the chair of the board at Stade Rennais football club at the end of the season, in May. The news triggered many reactions locally and in the sports circles. The French football news website Foot Sur 7<\/a> points out that, in his less than six-month tenure, Cerutti has played \u201ca strategic role\u201d in boosting the club for its contention for the European qualification and even making proposals to reshape the French football organisation. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe time has come for me to consider the next stage of my professional journey\u201d, posted Cerutti on Linkedin<\/a>, admitting \u201ca certain sense of sadness\u201d in turning \u201csuch a memorable page\u201d. He added that, \u201cleading Christie\u2019s for a decade was an unforgettable experience, most notably the record-breaking sales in New York of the Salvator Mundi in 2017 and the Paul Allen Collection in 2021.\u201d He also pointed out that the Pinault Collection\u2019s museums in Paris and Venice, \u201cled by a team of the highest caliber\u201d, gathered a \u201crecord attendance in 2025 and once again this year\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guillaume Cerutti has departed all of his positions in Fran\u00e7ois Pinault\u2019s portfolio. After it was revealed last week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41087,10346,6225,6485,6486,17198,1120,96,177116,175344,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-appointments-departures","9":"tag-art-market","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-christies","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-francois-pinault","17":"tag-pinault-collection","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}