Notable Sales: Antonio Stradivari | Violin, 1712
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Ex-LeBrun
Cremona, 1712
labelled Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Faciebat anno 1712 AS and inscribed on the label Presviter Assensio cumpos**
length of back 35.5cm.
The earliest confirmed record of the 1712 ‘ex-LeBrun’ is when it was owned by Niccolò Paganini, who owned 11 Strads in total at the time of his death in 1840. The ‘ex-LeBrun’ was sold from his collection to the Boutillier family and from them to Chardon & Fils. Vincenzo Sighicelli, a violinist and lesser known composer, bought the violin in 1893, before selling it to Charles LeBrun, from whom the violin received its name. LeBrun was an attorney and is thought to have owned a number of other violins by Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, and Vincenzo Rugeri.
In 1922 the ‘ex-LeBrun’ was bought by Swiss architect Otto Senn who owned it until his death in 1993. The violin was sold from his estate in Sotheby’s November 2001 auction to an anonymous German collector for £720,000. The ‘ex-LeBrun’ was sold by Sotheby’s again in 2008 to a private collector in the US.
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