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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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