He had a nice dose of self-mockery.
In a kind of coach Kurt Cobain, the legendary co-founder of the group Nirvana, had written and signed next to his crudely sketched image: "
I don't know how to play and I don't care!"
Kurdt Cobain ROCK STAR
”.
On June 13, the Californian auction house Julien's Auctions, specializing in memorials for cinema and music, sold this childish sketch of the rocker - who died prematurely at the age of 27 on April 5, 1994 - exactly $ 281,250, a record sum close to thirty times higher than its initial estimate.
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Two other memorabilia from
Kurt Cobain's
“
Nevermind
”
period
were also left at this auction.
A DOD FX69 guitar distortion effect pedal used by the star during a concert given by Nirvana at the San Diego Sports Arena on December 29, 1993, a few months before his tragic suicide, was sold for the sum of $ 16,000 .
Finally, the musical program for Nirvana's passage on April 20, 1990 at the Olde Club in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, written by the guitarist himself, went up for auction for an amount identical to the sound effect pedal.
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MTV Unplugged
at auction in New York
The legend of Kurt Cobain, his talent as an instrumentalist, to the almost frenzied excess, sells.
In June 2020, the famous "
Unplugged
" of the rock star had torn under the hammer for some 6 million dollars.
(Too) modestly Julien's Auctions had initially estimated it only a small million dollars ...
With disarming humor, Kurt Cobain had sketched himself in the guise of a child strumming a guitar almost bigger than him. This drawing sold for $ 280,000 at auction.
Self-portrait of Kurt Cobain AFP / Valérie Macon
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