Patricia Barbizet and Guillaume Cerutti of Christie’s.
The management shuffle, to take effect in January, will include French owner François Pinault becoming chairman, a role that Barbizet currently holds alongside being chief executive.
Barbizet had taken the helm in 2014 from American Steven Murphy, who left the firm. For more details on this change and other ‘movers and shakers’ of 2016, see Review of the Year, p16-17.
