Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1732, the 'Pixis'

Violin: 43699

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Label not original.

Back: One-piece of broad curly maple

Top: of close-grained spruce

Ribs: of wood matching back; unusually thick

Varnish: Red

Length of back: 34.9 cm

Upper bouts: 16.5 cm

Middle bouts: 11 cm

Lower bouts: 20.5 cm

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Notes:

The date of this instrument is listed as 1732 by the Hills.

The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family (1626-1762), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, London

"According to Mr. Phipps Jr., his father (in consultation with his uncle, John S. Phipps, a violin collector) purchased the instrument in 1943 for his musically gifted son from Mr. Bennett's widow, Katherine D. Bennett. (According to an announcement from the American Art Association's Anderson Galleries in New York, Mr. Bennett's entire collection was put up for sale in 1932, but in light of Mr. Phipps's account, the instrument was presumably not sold."

A Living Legacy, Lisa Robinson, A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at the Juilliard School, New Jersey

BARTOLOMEO GIUSEPPE GUARNERI 'DEL GESù': BIOGRAPHY AND PRICE HISTORY
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Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù'

Provenance

	Friederich Wilhelm Pixis
in 1930	John Hudson Bennett
until 1880	Louis Turban
1880-1885	W. E. Hill & Sons
from 1885	Gilbert Watson
until 1892	W. E. Hill & Sons
in 1892	Sold by Hamma & Co.
from 1892	Ernst Kessler
in 1931	Theodore Spiering
	Sold by Nathan E. Posner
until 1932	John Hudson Bennett
in 1932	Sold by Anderson Galleries Inc.
...	...
from 1943	Howard Phipps, Sr.
until 2000	Howard Phipps, Jr.
from 2000	Juilliard School of Music

Known players

Ani Kavafian, Fredrich Wilhelm Pixis, Theodore Spiering

Certificates & Documents

Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1926)

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References

A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at the Juilliard School, Lisa Robinson, Amadeus Press, New Jersey (illustrated)
L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Comitato Stradivariano, Cremona (illustrated)
Private Archives - 10842
Friedrich Brothers Rare Old Violins (1919), Ernest N. Doring, John Friedrich & Brothers, New York (illustrated)
The Collection of John Hudson Bennett Catalog, February 5, 1932, New York, New York (illustrated)
The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
The Juilliard School
The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1931