Emmanuelle VIDAL-DELAGNEAU
ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT - COLLECTION INVENTORIES

THE EXPERT

Emmanuelle Vidal-Delagneau heads Adeona, an artistic and cultural heritage management company she founded in 2011 after some twenty years of experience in the art and culture world.
She is a member of the National Treasures Commission, appointed in 2014 by the Minister of Culture as a “Qualified Expert,” and former member of the Council for Voluntary Sales of Movable Property at Public Auction, appointed in 2009 by the Minister of Justice.

Emmanuelle Vidal-Delagneau holds a triple qualification in management, law, and art history. She holds degrees from the Auctioneer School, Commissaire de Justice, INSEAD, EMLYON, University of Lyon, and the Royal Society of Arts (London). Beginning her career at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the Centre Georges Pompidou, she then worked for the auction house Tajan, before becoming head of monument management at the Centre des monuments nationaux. In 1998, she joined the international auction house Christie’s in London as Director of Special Sales, then, four years later, was appointed Auctioneer and Director of Development for Christie’s France, a position she held for a decade.

Since founding Adeona in 2011, Emmanuelle Vidal-Delagneau has focused her activities with complete discretion and independence on artistic and cultural heritage management: inventories, valuations, study and research reports designed to enhance works and art objects, dation en paiement files, purchase and sale strategies, private treaty transactions, support during auctions. She advises collectors, companies, artists, and beneficiaries.

PUBLICATIONS

– The Art Market in China, Monde Chinois, Nouvelle Asie, No. 29 (Spring 2012);
– France-Belgique: avantage Bruxelles?, Journal des Arts (March 30, 2012);
– Charles Gillot (1853-1903), the art of collecting in the 19th Century, Christie’s Magazine (March-April 2008);
– A tribute to Frank, Christie’s Magazine (November 2006).

RESEARCH PAPERS

– Dynamiser l’effort muséal: le cas du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (1991);
– Jean Lurçat, a singular part in the story of tapestry (1992);
– Les ventes cataloguées d’œuvres d’art à Drouot en 1994 (1995);
– The 1998 Paris fine art catalogued sales (1999).