Our team

eric.turquin@turquin.fr 

After obtaining both a Master's degree in Private Law and graduating from the École du Louvre, Eric Turquin passed the professional auctioneer's exam in 1977. From 1977 to 1979, he interned with Paul Touzet, one of the three Parisian experts specializing in Old Master Paintings. Approached by Sotheby's, he went on to work for the London auction house from 1979 to 1987 first as cataloguer, then as an expert in Old Master Paintings and finally, from 1985 to 1987, as head of the department. As of September 1987, he has been based in Paris. A member of the Syndicat Français des Experts Professionnels since 1990 (http://www.sfep-experts.com/) and specialized in Old Master Paintings, he works as an independent expert for Tajan, PIASA, Artcurial and most of the major Parisian and provincial auctioneers, as well as with auction houses outside of France.

philippine.motais@turquin.fr

After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Bordeaux, and completing first and second year courses at the École du Louvre (a year of Museology in 2006-2007 and a year at the Ruprecht-Karl-Universität in Heidelberg in 2007-2008), Philippine Motais de Narbonne completed her studies with a Bachelor's degree in Law at Assas, followed by a Master's degree in Private Law and Asset Management in Toulouse (Université du Capitole). In 2009, she was awarded the status of Conférencier Nationale. She worked with expert René Millet from 2010 to 2017 and joined Eric Turquin's team in 2020 after spending two and a half years in the United Arab Emirates working for Agence France-Muséums at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. She is a member of the SFEP.

documentation@turquin.fr

Brigitte Lekieffre is a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and holds a Master's degree in History from the Sorbonne. She has worked with Eric Turquin since the early days of the firm, managing the library and documentation. The latter is the result of rigorous archiving of data drawn from the art market and public institutions, collected over more than thirty-five years and subsequently available to the firm’s experts. In addition to keeping abreast of current art market events, documents acquired over the years have also been incorporated into the archives, including those of art experts Robert Lebel (1901-1986) and Georges Ryaux (1894-1978). Brigitte Lekieffre is in charge of research and supervises the interns who are generally students of art history and law.