This amount is close to the record of 15.9 million reached for such an instrument. The violin sold yesterday was made in 1714 by the famous Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari.
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Posted on 11/06/2022 08:24
Update on 11/06/2022 10:48
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A fortune for an exceptional instrument. A rare copy of the Stradivarius violin, the most famous in the world, was sold on Thursday June 9 at auction in New York for 15.34 million dollars (14.58 million euros). A sum which is just below the record (15.9 million dollars) recorded for such a violin, announced the specialized company Tarisio.
The instrument, made in 1714 by the Italian master Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), had notably belonged for almost forty years to the Russian-American virtuoso Toscha Seidel (1899-1962), who had played it in the soundtrack of the Wizard of Oz (1939), a Hollywood classic. “Seidel was also Albert Einstein’s teacher, so this violin found himself side by side with the great mathematician scientist as they played quartets at Albert’s house in Princeton, New Jersey”added the founder and director of Tarisio, at the premises of the company specializing in the sale of rare instruments.
Of the thousand instruments made by the luthier of Cremona, there are still around 600 listed today. “Many are in museums, others in foundations, they will not be sold. 1710 and 1720. And these are, for the most part, the most desired and valued”, explains the expert. The Tarisio house gave no indication of the buyer.
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