Ysaÿe: secret to his success?

June 3rd, 2010

Lot 516 in our Moennig auction is a lithograph publicity print for Colombia Records showing the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.

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Lot 516: Eugène Ysaÿe

It’s well known that M. Ysaÿe had one of the finest collections of French bows, but nowhere in his inventory do we find a anything quite as unique as the bow with two frogs pictured in this print.

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Lot 516 (detail): Ysaÿe's secret two-frog bow