Paganini Violin makes over $1million
Published November 2nd, 2005
Sotheby’s, the London auction house has sold a Carlo Bergonzi violin for over $1m to Moscow’s Violin Art Foundation.Lot 313 made circa 1720 was expected sell for between £350,000 and £500,000.
In an exciting auction where record bids were made for other violin makers instruments the Bergonzi eventually sold for £568,000 ($1,005,360).
The instrument, which once owned by the virtuoso Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini, was bought by Maxim Viktorov, The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Violin Art Foundation
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