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Leandro (I) Bisiach

Auction price history

Highest auction price

£60,000

Type	Details	Sold	Price
Violin	Labelled Joannes Baptista Guadagnini Cremonensis fecit Taurini alumnus Antoni Stradivari 177	March 2025	£48,000
Violino d'Amore	Illustrated in "The Modern Italian Violin Makers" by Dmitry Gindin, p. 45; labelled Leandro Bisiach ...	March 2025	£11,400
Violin	Labelled Jo. Bapt. Guadagnini Cremonesis alumnus Antonii Stradivari fecit Taurini 1783 Leandro ...	November 2024	£46,346
Violin		October 2014	£52,500
Violin		May 2013	£46,850
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1900	December 2011	£44,385
Cello	75.7 cm 20th C. [Attributed to]	November 2011	£17,292
Violin	35.4 cm Milan, 1897	June 2011	£36,000
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1935 c.	June 2011	£26,400
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1910	March 2011	£43,200
Cello	75.2 cm Milan, 1927	October 2010	£60,000
Violin	35.4 cm Milan, 1919	October 2010	£39,600
Violin	35.2 cm 1900 c. [Attributed to]	October 2010	£7,500
Violin	35.9 cm Milan, 1962 [Workshop of]	April 2010	£2,992
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1899 after "Ruggieri"	March 2010	£24,000
Violin	36.0 cm Milan, 1896	March 2010	£43,200
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1900	October 2009	£33,366
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1900 c.	October 2009	£26,216
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1910	June 2009	£42,000
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1919	March 2009	£34,850
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1922	December 2008	£27,172
Violin	35.8 cm [Attributed to]	November 2008	£4,800
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1895	November 2008	£59,220
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1895 c. [Workshop of]	May 2008	£23,947
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1922	March 2008	£23,300
Violin	35.4 cm Milan, 1920 c.	October 2007	£10,000
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1958 c. [Workshop and probably by "Leandro Jr."]	May 2007	£14,402
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1960 c. [Workshop of]	May 2007	£5,761
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1914 c. [Possibly in collaboration with Gaetano Sgarabotto]	May 2007	£17,085
Violin	35.5 cm [Attributed to]	March 2007	£9,200
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1920 c. After Guadagnini [Workshop of]	February 2007	£18,000
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1912	November 2006	£31,577
Violin	35.7 cm Milan, 1942 [Workshop of]	November 2006	£5,400
Violin	35.3 cm Milan, 1921	October 2006	£25,875
Violin	35.4 cm Mid-20th C [Attributed to].	July 2006	£4,200
Violin	35.5 cm Milan, 1920 c. [Workshop of]	July 2006	£26,400
Violin	35.6 cm Milan, 1920 c.	May 2006	£33,724
Violin	35.3 cm 1890 c. [Workshop of] [Probably by]	May 2006	£17,071
Viola	42.4 cm Milan, 1960 c.	November 2005	£10,264
Violin	Milan, 1900 c.	November 2005	£12,000
Violin	Milan, 1895 c.	November 2005	£19,703
Violin	Milan, 1897	February 2005	£35,850
Violin	1900 c.	October 2004	£8,270
Violin	1918 c. [Attributed to & possibly by]	October 2004	£6,998
Violin	Milan 1899 [Workshop]	October 2004	£3,984
Violin	Milan, 1937 [Workshop]	October 2004	£17,929
Violin	[Workhop]	May 2004	£15,251
Violin	[Workhop]	May 2004	£7,957
Violin	1907	May 2004	£23,208
Violin	Milan, 1937	April 2004	£13,464
Violin	20th C. [Workshop] [Attributed to]	April 2004	£5,386
Violin	1925	November 2003	£20,400
Violin	1895	October 2003	£33,925
Violin	1940	October 2003	£10,178
Violin	1910	May 2003	£27,600
Violin	1890	June 2002	£19,400
Violin	1898	November 2001	£23,936
Violin	1910	May 2001	£23,404
Violin	1928	May 2001	£14,823
Violin	1942	May 2001	£12,867
Violin	1912	November 2000	£23,500
Violin	1920	June 2000	£17,250
Violin	1910	May 2000	£33,367
Violin	1919	May 2000	£25,667
Violin	1910	November 1999	£25,300
Violin	1895	November 1998	£21,850
Violin	1896	November 1998	£16,100
Violin	1895	June 1996	£14,950
Violin	1900 c.	March 1995	£20,700
Violin	1900	December 1994	£20,641
Violin	1899	June 1994	£28,750
Violin	1900-20	July 1993	£28,750
Violin	1910	March 1993	£10,350
Violin	1897	November 1992	£13,200
Violin	1898	June 1991	£19,800
Viola	41.0 cm 1939	June 1987	£6,050
Cello	1910	January 1983	£6,820

Biographies

John Dilworth Willibald Leo Lütgendorff

John Dilworth

BISIACH, Leandro Giuseppe (I) Born 1864 Casale Monferrato, died 1946 Venegono Superiore Italy. Highly regarded maker of the modern Italian school. First introduced to the craft by Romeo and Riccardo Antoniazzi in Milan c.1886. Established independently there 1890. Between 1918 and 1922 spent time in Siena as curator at the Academia Chigiana Conservatoire, but settled permanently thereafter in Milan. Initially at 8 via Silvio Pellico, then at 11 via Rugabelli, and in 1930 at 9 via Alberto da Guiassano, and finally 1 via San Nicolo. Assisted in the later period by his sons Giacomo, Leandro (II), and Andrea, below, he retired to Venegano, Varese c.1932. There he continued to practice as an expert connoisseur, dealer, and repairer until his death. Bisiach employed and established the careers, not only of his sons, but of Sgarabotto, Ornati, Garimberti, Pedrazzini, and others. His workshops produced replicas of old instruments with shaded varnish; also many of new appearance on many classical models. Early work much influenced by Antoniazzi, with distinctively eccentric volute to the scroll; later output quite diverse. Used a varnish said to be of genuine Stradivari origin, known as the ‘1704’ recipe, very successfully. Prolific maker: quartets are in the collections of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Accademia Chigiana, Sienna. Many awards achieved in his career: London 1895, Atlanta 1895/6, Turin 1898, Paris 1900, Milan 1906, and Brussels 1910. Leandro Bisiach / della scuola Cremonese / fece in Milano 1896 Leandro Bisiach della Scoula Cremonese / fece in Milano 1917. Piazza del Duomo Leandro Bisiach / in Milano / 1909 [Blot II]