Turnover: 216 million EUR (2022)

Country: France

ArtCurial is a French auction company for works of art and objets d'art created in 2002 and considered as the first French auction house and the third worldwide. The company has recently offered on the art photography market twentieth century works such as From The Estate Willy Ronis the monograph session André Kertesz etc. On November 14, 2014, the work photographs Man Ray's Prayer was sold for $194,000 by the house.

News

Artcurial wins out over Christie's and Sotheby's 08/08/2023

  • Artcurial was founded in 2002 and became the third-largest player in the French art market in 2005.
  • In 2022, Artcurial achieved record sales of €216.5 million.
  • Arqana, a racehorse auctioneer affiliated to Artcurial, achieved a sales volume of 225 million euros and sold almost 5,000 horses in 2022.
  • It ranks second in the European market.
  • Artcurial set up operations in Monaco in 2015, Morocco in 2019 and Switzerland in 2022.
  • Artcurial also owns the John Taylor real estate group, acquired in 2017, with a portfolio of 6,000 properties worth €16 billion.
  • The Artcurial group's consolidated sales in 2022 were €1.6 billion, making it one of Europe's leading intermediaries for exceptional properties.

In 2018, Artcurial's sales volume will total nearly 200 million euros, up 2% on the previous year, with 10 millionaire auctions. The percentage of lots sold increased by 3 points compared with 2017 to 76%. Three-quarters of buyers of lots above 50,000 euros are international

Financial Data

DUNS: 440088235

Legal Name: ARTCURIAL S.A.S.

Address: 7 RPT DES CHAMPS ELYSEES-MARCEL DASSAU MARCEL DASSAULT, 75008 PARIS 8

Number of employees: Entre 100 et 199 salariés (2020)

Capital: 1 797 000 EUR


Financial Data:

Year 2018 2017 2016 2015
Turnover 34 785 995 34 349 367 37 411 428 37 070 029
Gross margin (€) 35 630 316 35 697 992 37 892 881 37 708 864
EBITDA (€) 1 114 398 713 504 570 498 2 649 695
Operating profit (€) 1 050 943 939 257 315 150 2 396 626
Net profit (€) 805 988 791 093 407 972 1 681 292
Turnover growth rate (%) 1,3 -8,2 0,9 -
Ebitda margin rate (%) 3,2 2,1 1,5 7,1
Operating margin rate (%) 3 2,7 0,8 6,5
Working Capital (turnover days) -86,8 -111,2 -136,1 -145,1
Working Capital requirements (turnover days) -130,3 -145,5 -127,4 -158,4
Net margin (%) 2,3 2,3 1,1 4,5
Added value / Turnover (%) 38 38,7 32,3 38,2
Wages and social charges (€) 10 935 722 10 714 919 10 274 514 10 321 527
Salaries / Turnover (%) 31,4 31,2 27,5 27,8

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