Charles Georges Brugere

Highest auction price achieved
£ 10123.00

By Cecie Stainer

b. Nov 10, 1865, at Mirecourt; son of Charles Joseph Brugere, a maker of guitars. Apprenticed, 1878, at Mirecourt, to Etienne Drouin. 1882, went to Lyons to work for two and a half years under Paul Blanchard; then after nine months with Paul Bailly at Paris, entered the workshop of Gand & Bernardel, where he remained from Dec, 1885, till 1892. He succeeded Eugene Henry, Sept. 22, 1892, at 151, rue St. Martin, Paris. As he and three workmen are almost exclusively employed in repairing old instruments, he only makes about twelve new instruments a year; these, whether violins, violas, or violoncellos, are consecutively numbered as made, and only when his own personal work are labelled with his name. He follows the Stradivari pattern, and uses good oil varnish, varying in colour from yellow to golden-red. He exhibited at Lyons, 1894, a double quintet of instruments ; the violins and violoncellos were reported of powerful and sweet tone, and the double-bass as equally excellent on all four strings; he was awarded the first silver medal.

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Price History

Type Title Sold Price
Violin Bow S/E 60 g. Wed 1st September 82 £ 462.00
Violin 35.9 cm [Workshop of] Wed 1st June 11 £ 2640.00
Violin 35.8 cm Paris, 1914 n°209 Wed 1st June 11 £ 4409.00
Cello 76.1 cm [Ascribed to] Thu 1st April 10 £ 7856.00
Violin 35.5 cm Paris, 1905 Thu 1st October 09 £ 8033.00
Violin Paris, 1893 Mon 1st June 09 £ 622.00
Violin 35.5 cm Paris, 1905 Wed 1st October 08 £ 10123.00
Violin 35.8 cm 1900 c. [Possibly by] Mon 1st October 07 £ 1998.00
Violin 35.9 cm Paris, 1893 #7 Sat 1st July 06 £ 1200.00
Violin Paris, 1911 #192 Tue 1st November 05 £ 3000.00
Cello 1900 c. [Attributed to] Sat 1st October 05 £ 3275.00
Violin Paris, 1904 #129 Wed 1st June 05 £ 4747.00
Violin 1893 #7 Sun 1st May 05 £ 404.00
Violin Paris, 1899 Tue 1st February 05 £ 2988.00
Violin Paris, 1926 Tue 1st February 05 £ 3840.00
Violin Paris, 1808 #170 Wed 1st December 04 £ 6186.00
Viola 40 8 cm Paris 1897 #87 Mon 1st November 04 £ 1610.00
Violin 1891 Sun 1st June 03 £ 6773.00
Violin 1927 Sat 1st June 02 £ 3585.00
Violin 1927 Thu 1st November 01 £ 2600.00
Violin 1929 Fri 1st December 00 £ 2548.00
Violin 1911 Mon 1st March 99 £ 1800.00
Violin 1900 Tue 1st March 94 £ 1610.00
Violin 1905 Thu 1st March 90 £ 4400.00
Violin 1896 Thu 1st March 90 £ 605.00
Violin Bow S/E 56 g. Wed 1st November 89 £ 1100.00
Violin 18-- Thu 1st May 86 £ 1296.00
Violin 1909 Fri 1st November 85 £ 3520.00

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