Jean Bauer

Highest auction price

£9,639

Auction price history

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Viola	Bearing the maker's label n. 66 and brand, fair condition	Sat 1st June 2024	£6,382
Viola	41.0 cm Angers, 1968	Wed 1st June 2011	£3,600
Violin	35.6 cm Angers, 1943	Wed 1st June 2011	£2,755
Viola	41.3 cm Angers [Workshop of]	Tue 1st June 2010	£1,139
Cello	75.3 cm Angers, 1972	Thu 1st October 2009	£9,639
Violin	35.3 cm Angiers, 1955	Mon 1st October 2007	£2,284
Violin	35.1 cm Angers, 1952, #84	Fri 1st June 2007	£2,806
Violin	Angers, 1945 #29	Tue 1st November 2005	£1,500
Violin	Angers, 1966	Sat 1st October 2005	£2,129
Violin	Angers, 1961	Wed 1st June 2005	£3,139
Violin	Angers, 1979	Sun 1st May 2005	£2,400
Viola	42.2 cm Angers, 1960	Thu 1st July 2004	£4,200
Violin	Angers, 1955	Mon 1st March 2004	£1,673
Viola	42.3 cm 1962	Wed 1st October 2003	£4,661
Violin	1971	Sat 1st May 1999	£3,307
Violin	1952	Fri 1st November 1996	£2,530

Biographies

John Dilworth

BAUER, Jean Born 1914 Laval, Worked 1949 Angers France. Son of Gaston Bauer, above. Pupil of M. Didier in Mattaincourt, working in Le Havre in 1936, but forced to move by the events of the Second World War to Angers. Early work on the Guarneri model, but later developed a personal style based on classical proportions. Very fine work with good transparent red-orange varnish. Awards in Paris 1929, Toulouse, and Paris 1931, again in Paris 1937, Angers 1942, and The Hague 1949. Jean Bauer / Maistre-Luthier / En La ville d’Angers / no.. Année MIXC