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Pietro (I) Guarneri

Highest auction price

£225,971

Auction price history
Type Details Sold Price
Violin 35.4 cm 1700 c. (upper bass rib and peg box replaced) Mon 1st October 2007 £85,672
Violin 35.5 cm Mantua, 1710 c. Mon 1st October 2007 £14,900
Violin 35.4 cm Mantua Thu 1st February 2007 £117,600
Violin 35.4 cm Mantua, 1715 Sun 1st October 2006 £225,971
Violin 35.5 cm The head by Giovanni Battista Ceruti [Attributed to] Mon 1st May 2006 £14,716
Violin 1700 c. Sat 1st November 2003 £162,000
Violin 1685 Sat 1st June 2002 £89,150
Violin 1680 (poor condition) Fri 1st June 2001 £40,150
Violin 1715 Wed 1st June 1994 £221,500
Violin 1703 Fri 1st October 1993 £80,700
Violin 1703 Tue 1st November 1988 £66,000
Violin 1707 Sat 1st November 1986 £88,000
Violin 1686 Fri 1st November 1985 £52,800
Violin 1707 Mon 1st April 1985 £108,000
Violin 1715 Mantua Fri 1st April 1983 £30,800
Violin 1704 Mantua Sun 1st November 1981 £30,800
Biographies

John Dilworth

GUARNERI, Pietro (I) Born 1655 Cremona, died 1720 Mantua Italy. Elder son and pupil of Andrea Guarneri, above. Active and identifiable in the instruments of the Guarneri workshop from about 1670, he left sometime after 1677 and was settled in Mantua by 1683, working both as a luthier and musician in the ducal court. His work there developed a unique and very disciplined style, apparently influenced by Stainer in the often very high archings, and with elegant narrow soundholes finished with large eyes at each terminus. The scroll is relatively heavy compared with the general delicacy of the rest of the work, with a large eye and strong chamfer. Pietro’s varnish is particularly fine even amongst his peers. It is deep red-brown, even and well-applied, virtually without textural flaws, and laid over a finely reflective golden ground. Most consider him to have been the best craftsman of the Guarneri family. He was important in founding the small but significant Mantuan school, and both its most highly regarded makers, Camillo Camilli and Tomasso Balestrieri, were very strongly influenced by him. Petrus Guarnerius Cremonensis filius Andreae / fecit Mantuae sub tit. Sanctae Teresiae 1685

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