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He will take up his new role in the middle of next year.

Cerutti joined Sotheby's in 2007 as president director of their French operation. Prior to that he was chief executive of the Georges Pompidou Centre, chief of staff to the French minister of culture and head of the executive office for consumerism and competition in the ministry of economy and finance.