Guillaume Cerutti Exits Key Leadership Roles at Christie’s and Pinault Portfolio

Guillaume Cerutti has departed as Christie's chair, replaced by F-H Pinault, and leaves Stade Rennais and Pinault Collection roles. François Pinault (89) resumes Collection head. Cerutti cited 'next phase' after a decade at Christie's, with no explanation for the 'shock' split.

According to the declaration from Artémis, Cerutti is being replaced as the chair of Christie’s board by François-Henri Pinault, François Pinault’s beneficiary and the president of the luxury goods team Kering. Quickly thanking Cerutti for his solutions, the statement states these decisions were taken “in arrangement” between the three guys. It adds that François Pinault, 89, will resume the role of executive head of state of the Pinault Collection, the billionaire’s private collection that comprises more than 10,000 jobs as well as museums in Paris and Venice. A Pinault Collecton agent said there were no strategies to select a new president of the organisation to replace Cerutti or a meantime.

Cerutti will also leave his role as the chair of the board at Stade Rennais football club at the end of the period, in May. The information set off several reactions locally and in the sporting activities circles. The French football news internet site Foot Sur 7 mention that, in his much less than six-month period, Cerutti has actually played “a tactical role” in boosting the club for its contention for the European certification and even making proposals to reshape the French football organisation.

Cerutti Reflects on His Decade-Long Tenure and Future

“The time has come for me to take into consideration the following phase of my expert trip”, posted Cerutti on Linkedin, admitting “a certain sense of despair” subsequently “such a memorable page”. He included that, “leading Christie’s for a years was a remarkable experience, most especially the record-breaking sales in New York of the Salvator Mundi in 2017 and the Paul Allen Collection in 2021.” He additionally mentioned that the Pinault Collection’s galleries in Paris and Venice, “led by a team of the highest possible quality”, gathered a “record presence in 2025 and once again this year”.

Guillaume Cerutti has left all of his placements in François Pinault’s portfolio. After it was revealed recently that Cerutti was leaving his post as president of the Pinault Collection, the Pinault family members’s holding company, Artémis, introduced on 27 March that he will certainly likewise leave the chairmanship of the boards of Christie’s and the football club of Rennes (Brittany). No explanation was offered for the split in between both guys, which came as a total shock even to their entourages, resources inform The Art Paper.