Parke-Bernet Galleries was an American auction house, active from 1937 to 1964, when Sotheby's purchased it.

The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift.

[2] The company was founded in 1937, by a group of forty former employees of the American Art Association,[3] including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift.

Other customers of the company included Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Paul Mellon and Henry Ford II.

Ford's purchase of La Serre by Renoir through Parke-Bernet was a world record.