Casa d’Aste Boetto

Casa d'Aste Boetto is a Genoese auction house with departments across the traditional fine art categories. Its calendar alternates two formats that behave quite differently: aste live, held in the Genoa saleroom on a fixed day, and aste a tempo, timed online sales that run for a fortnight or so.

What you can buy

• Antiques and nineteenth-century painting.
• Oriental art, sold within the antiques sales.
• Jewellery and watches, in their own live sales.
• Modern and contemporary art, typically in the timed format.
• Design.

How the bidding works

Live sales are single-day events in Genoa with a published catalogue; timed sales open and close on stated dates and can be bid on throughout. The house publishes a full auction calendar and an archive of past sales, and offers free confidential valuations to potential consignors.

What to check before you bid

Read which format a sale is before planning: a live sale rewards being present or on the phone at the right hour, a timed one does not. For nineteenth-century painting and Oriental art in particular, ask for the condition report — restoration history is the thing that moves the price and it rarely fits in a catalogue line. The site is in Italian.