All auction articles
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NewsGuarneri ‘del Gesù’ c.1731 ‘Baltic’ violin sells for $9.44 million at auction
The violin is now the most expensive instrument by the maker ever to be sold at auction
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News‘With this, I’ve fulfilled a lifelong dream’: violinist David Garrett on his 1736 Guarneri ’del Gesù’
Having bought the violin at auction in June, the German superstar has now also created the Guarneri ’del Gesù’ Club
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News‘Hellier’ Stradivari violin fails to sell at auction
The inlaid instrument was a highlight of Christie’s ’Exceptional Sale’ on 7 July
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News1714 ‘da Vinci, ex-Seidel’ Stradivari violin sells for $15.34m
The sale of the violin heard on the soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz constitutes the second-highest amount ever paid for a Stradivari violin at auction
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NewsFirst ‘del Gesù’ violin auctioned in a decade fetches £3.5 million
The 1736 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin was sold on Friday 3 June by Aguttes auction house in France
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News€4 million 1736 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ to be auctioned
Aguttes Auction House will present the instrument on 3 June, the first Guarneri to be auctioned in over a decade
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NewsDominique Peccatte bow fetches nearly €200,000 at Bernard Millant auction
Vichy Enchères’ second sale of items from the leading French bowmaker’s collection included 95 bows and 16 violins, with a number of records set for makers
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NewsTwo cello records set at Sotheby’s sale of Rostropovich collection
Guadagnini and Serafin reach new highs in auction of items from the private collection of the Russian cellist and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya
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NewsNew record set for G.B. Guadagnini at London auction
The ‘Sinzheimer’ violin pushes past $2m mark in Tarisio auction, breaking previous record for maker set in 2016
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NewsViolin belonging to Russell Crowe fetches £89,500 at auction
Leandro Bisiach instrument used in the 2003 film Master and Commander was sold as part of an auction of the Australian actor’s belongings ostensibly to fund his divorce settlement
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NewsEinstein violin smashes estimate to sell for over half a million dollars
Instrument gifted to scientist in 1933 makes $516,500 at Bonhams in New York
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NewsTourte bow demolishes price records in French auction
Violin bow by François Xavier Tourte sells for €576,600 (c.$687,000) at Vichy Enchères the day after same house breaks record for violin by Vuillaume
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NewsNew record set for Vuillaume violin once owned by Eugène Ysaÿe
Vichy Enchères sale of Bernard Millant collection sees J.B. Vuillaume reach €260,000
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FocusFrom the archive: Edward Stollar at 80, from the July 1990 issue of The Strad
The head of the Phillips auction house music department in London for decades, Stollar was one of the violin trade’s most respected figures. The following is an extract from an article in the July 1990 issue of the strad by Robert Lewin
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NewsBernard Millant collection goes under the hammer
Vichy Enchères to auction 127 lots belonging to leading French bow maker who died earlier this year
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NewsHighlights from Tarisio October auction: instruments by Santo Serafin and Andrea Guarneri
The online auctioneer’s full catalogue for the London-based auction will be released on 4 October
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NewsRecord estimate for Mahler Symphony no.2 manuscript
Sotheby’s to sell score from estate of businessman and musician Gilbert Kaplan
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NewsTourte violin bow achieves world record price at auction
Beares Auctions sold the silver and ebony mounted item for $288,960 to a professional musician
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NewsRare Mozart letter sells for $217,000 at auction
The signed note was written around 1786 and was sold through Boston company RR Auction
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NewsLock of Mozart’s hair smashes estimate to reach £35,000 at auction
The item, enclosed in a locket, was sold by Sotheby’s in London