The 1715 "Baron Knoop" Stradivari violin has sold for $23,000,000, shattering the previous price record set in 2011, when the 1721 "Lady Blunt" Stradivari violin was sold by Tarisio for $15,875,800.
The current record for a violin sold at auction was set in 2011 by the "Lady Blunt" Stradivarius, once owned by the granddaughter of Lord Byron, at $15.9 million, by the Tarisio auction house.
NEW YORK, March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A rare 292-year-old Guarneri violin known as the 'Baltic' sold for US$9.44 million at Tarisio, the global auction leader for rare stringed instruments and ...