Description
The beautiful violin labelled Marco Dobretsovich Liutaio Fece in Cairo-Egitto, anno 1934.
Marco Dobretsovitch has the distinction of being the only professional violin maker up until the present time active in Egypt. His background is complex; born in Ulcinj in Montenegro in 1891, he moved to Cairo in 1914, and studied with Augusto Pollastri in Bologna in about 1920. Returning to Egypt, he became established in Cairo, but spent his last years in Alexandria, where he died some time after 1945.
His workmanship is remarkable- beautifully controlled and finely finished- and represents the very best of Italian style, superior in many ways to any number of 20th century makers in Italy itself. This example, dated 1934 and made in Alexandria, is very pure and well-preserved, in virtually new condition. Every mark of classical Italian work in its post-Pressenda flowering is present.
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