Francois Gavinies
Highest auction price
£8,970
Auction price history
Type | Details | Sold | Price |
---|---|---|---|
Cello | Mon 11th May 2015 | £12 | |
Violin | 35.6 cm Paris, 1770 | Thu 1st September 2011 | £2,400 |
Violin | 35.7 cm Paris, 1760 c. (soundpost crack) | Tue 1st June 2010 | £4,971 |
Violin | 35.5 cm Paris, 1760 c. | Tue 1st June 2010 | £3,935 |
Violin | 35.5 cm Paris, 1769 | Thu 1st April 2010 | £1,381 |
Violin | 36.1 cm Paris, 1747 | Sat 1st December 2007 | £1,361 |
Viola | 40.6 cm 1755 | Fri 1st March 1996 | £8,970 |
Violin | 1750 | Thu 1st March 1990 | £3,080 |
Violin | 177- | Thu 1st September 1983 | £715 |
Biographies
John Dilworth
GAVINIÈS, François Born 1683, Bordeaux, Worked 1723-1734 Bordeaux, died 1772 Paris France. Bordeaux workshop in the rue des Minimes. Established in Paris in rue St-Thomas-du-Louvre. Appointed head of the Corporation of Luthiers 1762. Significant maker of the pre-revolutionary ‘vieux Paris’ school. Integrated many Cremonese ideas into his work. Good, precise work, sometimes with extra elaboration, but varnish generally dull and chippy, of yellow or red-brown tint. Cellos sought-after; at least one double bass with carved head recorded. Six-string viol in Musée de la Musique, Paris. Gaviniès, rue / S. Thomas du Lou / vre, à Paris, 17..
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