Julien’s Auctions bosses have broken world records with the sale of Kurt Cobain’s memorabilia, including the cardigan he wore on MTV Unplugged in New York, which sold for a record $334,000 (£270,500), his In Utero tour Fender Mustang guitar, which sold for $340,000 (£275,400), and a Nirvana paper plate set list written in Cobain’s handwriting, which sold for a record $22,400 (£18,150). Grunge rockers Nirvana pose after receiving an award for best alternative video for 'In Bloom' at the 10th annual MTV Video Music Awards Thursday, Septemin Universal City, California. "This important guitar has earned its rightful place in Rock ’N’ Roll history as the instrument played by one of rock’s most influential musicians and icons in one of the greatest and most memorable live performances of all time."Īlso up for grabs at the auction: a smashed Fender Stratocaster guitar used by Kurt Cobain while performing with Nirvana on the 1994 In Utero Tour, a metallic silver lame long sleeve button-down shirt worn by the artist in Nirvana’s 1993 Heart-shaped Box music video, and a copy of Nirvana’s 1989 Bleach CD cover signed 'Kurt' and inscribed with drawings by Cobain.
"Julien’s Auctions is proud to offer this historic guitar from Kurt Cobain, who upended the music industry and pop culture at large with his mythic performance fronting Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in New York," said Darren Julien, the president/CEO of Julien’s Auctions. "The storage compartment of the case also contains Cobain’s half used pack of Martin guitar strings, three guitar picks, and his suede 'stash' bag decorated with a miniature silver spoon, fork, and knife." "Three baggage claim ticket stubs are attached to the handle, along with an Alaska Airlines sticker affixed to the case. "In addition, the sale of the guitar comes with its original hard-shell case decorated by Cobain with a flyer from the punk rock band Poison Idea’s 1990 album Feel the Darkness," a release reads.
Now, the guitar is set to change hands again - it will be on sale at an upcoming Julien's Auctions Music Icons event, set for June. Her ex-husband maintained he was the rightful owner of the instrument after Frances gave the guitar to him as a wedding gift. Kurt Cobain's daughter gave up her late father's 1959 Martin D-18E electric-acoustic guitar, which he strummed during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged set in 1993 - five months before his death, to settle her divorce battle with Isaiah Silva. Neither has commented yet on the auction.The guitar at the centre of Frances Bean Cobain's nasty divorce battle is going under the hammer. Get the latest music news, watch video clips from music shows, events, and exclusive performances from your favorite artists. Julien’s Auction has not revealed who is selling the guitar, but it seems unlikely that Love or her daughter are the sellers, given their efforts to get it back. “It’s a treasured heirloom of the family,” she said. In 2016, Cobain’s widow told TMZ that she and her daughter wanted Silva to return the guitar. A 2018 divorce settlement awarded the guitar to Silva, but as of last year, his Frances Bean and her mother Courtney Love were still trying to get it back, according to a Page Six report. The heavily-modded acoustic/electric guitar was famously played by Cobain during Nirvana’s entire set on MTV Unplugged in 1993. When the pair split, he kept it over his ex’s objections. Kurt Cobain’s iconic Martin D-18E has been announced to be part of Julien’s Auctions upcoming Music Icons 2020 auction. The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band’s famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert has sold for more than 6m (£4.8m) at auction. Silva, who was married to Cobain’s only child from 2014 to 2016, says Frances Bean gave him the guitar as a wedding gift.
Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean Cobain and her ex-husband Isaiah Silva have been engaged in a drawn-out battle over who is the true owner of the instrument. The Unplugged guitar has had a complicated history. Frances Bean Cobain and every day ❤️❤️every single dayĪ post shared by Courtney Love Cobain on at 10:40am PST The rest of it, I could really care less about.
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