An exceptional violin will be auctioned this Friday during a sale organized in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) by the Aguttes house.
It is a Guarnerius, known as “del Gesù”, made in 1736 in Cremona (Italy), reports
Le Parisien
.
The instrument is estimated between 4 and 4.5 million euros.
It previously belonged to Régis Pasquier, 76, musician elected soloist of the year in 1991. He acquired it more than 20 years ago and is parting with it to "pass the baton".
📢 Our violins & bows sale, on June 3, presenting this violin by Guarnerius "del Gesù", is in the @gazette_drouot!
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A Stradivarius competitor
The instrument was made by luthier Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarnerius, nicknamed "del Gesù", a contemporary and rival of Stradivarius.
This is the first sale in the 21st century of a Guarnerius from the intermediate period (between 1730 and 1740), when the luthier was at the peak of his art.
This violin will be priced at 2 or 2.5 million euros.
“We will undoubtedly have two categories of buyers in the ranks: musicians and collectors”, confided the auctioneer of the Aguttes house to
Parisian
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