Calle 70 # 10a - 59 Bogotá - Colombia
Bogotá Auctions was founded in 2014 as the first auction house in Colombia, and since then, we have been committed to the specialized and transparent sale of artworks and collectible objects in the secondary market. Our purpose is to constantly energize and expand the Colombian art market, giving it greater visibility both nationally and internationally.
As the first auction house in the country, our challenge and greatest achievement has been to build trust in the auction mechanism and promote transparency in the art market. That’s why our motto is “Professionalism - Experience - Transparency."
This experience, professionalism, and commitment have led us to develop a network of loyal collectors, both national and international, private and institutional, to whom we offer excellent support and service. This, along with the quality of our catalogs, provides the necessary guarantees for secure transactions and increases the chances of achieving prices that often exceed our commercial estimates.
Director and Experts
Director and hammer
A lawyer and art historian from Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne University, she is also a museologist from the École du Louvre, where she specialized in the art market. Throughout her professional career, she has had the opportunity to work from different perspectives at auction houses such as Tajan and Sotheby’s in Paris, where she practiced art law applied to the market. From another angle—cultural heritage protection—she worked at the Unidroit Institute in Rome, supporting the promotion of an international instrument for the protection of cultural heritage. Charlotte has been teaching Art Market courses at Universidad de los Andes since 2014, and since 2015, she has served as the director and auctioneer of Bogotá Auctions.
Decorative Arts and Design
She studied Art History at the Università degli Studi in Milan. She arrived in Cartagena de Indias in 1985, where she opened her first antique shop and, together with two colleagues, founded the Cartagena Antique Dealers Association, contributing to the expansion of the antique district from Santa Teresa Street to Santo Domingo Square. In 1991, she opened another antique shop in Bogotá. She has devoted herself to the Colombian antiques market, becoming a renowned expert in local and international furniture and collectible objects. Since 2018, she has served as the Decorative Arts specialist at Bogotá Auctions.
Antique Books, Documents, and Maps
Holder of a postgraduate degree in History from Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne University and a graduate of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, Timothée de Saint Albin settled in Bogotá in 2006. That same year, he founded Bolívar Old Prints, the first Colombian antiquarian shop specialized in maps, antique prints, and travel literature. This initiative notably helped to foster the collecting of antique maps in the country and significantly enriched the collection of the Luis Ángel Arango Library. This experience also led him to work closely with international auction houses, which inspired him to create a Colombian auction house that meets international standards. Thus, in 2014, he founded Bogotá Auctions. He is a member of AILA (Iberian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers).
Art, Prints, and Multiples
After graduating in Philosophy and Literature from the Catholic University of Milan, he specialized in the field of art history and criticism, with a particular focus on Latin American art. He holds a postgraduate degree in Literary and Artistic Criticism from the Catholic University of Milan, a two-year Master’s in Argentine and Latin American Art History from the Institute of Advanced Social Studies at the National University of San Martín (IDAES-UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in History, with a specialization in Art History, also from IDAES-UNSAM, with a dissertation on Colombian artistic processes between 1919 and 1965.
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