A Levin Deluxe archtop guitar played by legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt looks set to make $80,000-100,000.
In the mid-1930s, Reinhardt began playing with violinist Stephane Grapelli.
Django Reinhardt developed a signature style of playing
Together they pioneered a style that came to be known as gypsy jazz, which was defined by Reinhardt’s highly distinctive playing.
He wrote around 100 songs that went on to become standards - perhaps most notably the deeply sorrowful Nuages (1940), written in Nazi occupied France.
The song came to be seen as a symbol of French resistance.
This guitar belonged to Fred Guy of the Duke Ellington orchestra. Reindhart was photographed holding it after a show in 1946.
It will sell at Julien’s Auctiosn on May 20, along with Elvis’ first piano and an illustration by John Lennon.
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