![]() The instrument previously sat in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where in a few months nominees like Whitney Houston and Dave Matthews Band may be inducted and honored alongside Cobain. The buyer, who purchased it for $340,000, also received a handwritten note from Courtney Love saying that this was one of Cobain’s favorite guitars. One of the musician’s guitars was also auctioned off: a turquoise left-handed guitar that Cobain used during the In Utero tour. ![]() Sold in our "Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll" auction at and online at ! #JuliensAuctions #Auction #KurtCobain #Nirvana /lnxaTpxuoJ- Juliens Auctions October 26, 2019 SOLD for $334,000! A vintage cardigan sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The auction took place at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York during Julien’s Auctions’s two-day rock-memorabilia event. The Manhattan-brand sweater is made of olive-green mohair and acrylic. Kurt Cobain wore the sweater while performing at Sony Music Studios in front of a live audience on April 5, 1994, five months before he killed himself. That price tag makes it the most expensive sweater ever auctioned, according to The Guardian. The sweater he wore during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance was just purchased for $334,000. Julien's Auctions announced the sale of the sweater, which was worn by Cobain in New York City on Novemand hasn't been washed since. Rogers’s? Freddy Krueger’s?) Kurt Cobain’s green cardigan has them all beat by a landslide. Entertainment Music Kurt Cobains Never Washed Unplugged Sweater Is Up for Auction Again After Previously Selling for Almost 150K The rockers green cardigan sweater that he wore for. MTV The green cardigan Kurt Cobain wore for Nirvana's famous 'MTV Unplugged' appearance in 1993 sold at auction for 334,000, making it the most expensive sweater auction of all time. ![]() Other notable sales at Julien’s Auctions this weekend included Elvis Presley’s 1974 gold Mercedes-Benz 450 ($125,000), a Jimi Hendrix-autographed copy of Are You Experienced? ($45,000), a Heroes-era David Bowie self-portrait ($51,000) and Bernie Taupin’s handwritten lyrics for Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” in a custom Wizard of Oz frame ($75,000, well over its $6,000 pre-auction estimate).Photo: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty ImagesĪs far as famous sweaters go (Mr. Rogers’s cherry-red uniform, Kurt Cobain’s pilling green cardigan from his 1994 MTV Unplugged performance might just be the most famous cardigan in sweater. The guitar, which was previously housed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, came with a handwritten letter by Courtney Love, who stated that the instrument was among Cobain’s favorite. Remarkably, the Unplugged sweater’s $334,000 sale price wasn’t the highest bid on a Cobain-related item at Julien’s Icons & Idols: Rock ‘N’ Roll auction: His custom-built Fender Mustang guitar, used by the Nirvana frontman on the In Utero Tour, sold for $340,000. There’s even cigarettes burns that you can see on the sweater.” “It’s very important that we don’t wash it,” Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions told Rolling Stone earlier this month. ![]() Kurt Cobain’s guitar and ‘Unplugged’ sweater at the Julien’s Auctions event Julien's Auction The sweater was accompanied with a handwritten letter of provenance from Jackie Farry, Frances Bean Cobain’s nanny and a close friend of Courtney Love, who gifted Farry with the sweater following Cobain’s death in April 1994. Once again, the olive green Manhattan brand sweater exceeded expectations upon its sale at Julien’s Auctions: In November 2015, Cobain’s sweater - “a blend of acrylic, mohair and Lycra with five-button closure (one button absent), with two exterior pockets, a burn hole and discoloration near left pocket and discoloration on right pocket” - sold for $137,500 through Julien’s Auctions, far exceeding the sweater’s pre-auction estimate of $60,000.Īhead of Saturday’s auction, the sweater had already surpassed its $200,000 minimum bid before bidding blew past the item’s $300,000 pre-auction estimate. Kurt Cobain’s famed green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000 at auction Saturday, establishing a new record for the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction and more than doubling its final-bid sale price from just four years ago. ![]()
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