![]() ![]() The item, which has never been washed, was expected to pull in between US200,000 and 300,000. it came with a handwritten letter signed by Love stating this was one of her late husband's favorite guitars. It sold for US334,000 last Saturday, which equates to more than 437,000 CAD. The custom-built Fender Mustang guitar the Nirvana frontman played during the In Utero tour sold for $340,000. ![]() Surprisingly, the sweater wasn't the highest selling possession of Cobain's over the weekend. 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. The sweater Kurt Cobain wore for Nirvanas iconic performance on MTVs Unplugged is up for auction - and may fetch as much as 300,000. ![]() It came 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 when her husband died in April 1994.Īlso important to note, the sweater has never been washed. B ack in 1993, Nirvana performed a now-iconic set for MTV’s. ![]() The cardigan was sold by Julien's Auctions, which describes it as "The Manhattan brand sweater is 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." Kurt Cobain performs with Nirvana during a taping of MTV Unplugged on Nov. The clothing item exceeded expectations, as it was projected to go for between $200-300,000. I look at that sweater from a different perspective than maybe some people do, Kletjian says. Carrie Helpful Maggie was excellent at communication The sweater is the best sweater I have worn Exact qualities of Kurt’s Purchased item: Kurt Cobain MTV Unplugged Cardigan. Replica of the one he wore when he was in Nirvana in the 90's. Cobain wore the sweater for months preceding his 1994 suicide, on the now-legendary Unplugged performance in November 1993 and several times on tour before his death in April. Earlier this month, it was announced that Kurt Cobains unwashed cardigan sweater from the recording of Nirvanas famous MTV Unplugged performance would go up for auction.The last time the sweater. Purchased item: Kurt Cobain MTV Unplugged Cardigan. The bidding starts on October 25.Kurt Cobain's famed green cardigan from Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance went up for auction this week and sold for a whopping $334,000, setting a record for most expensive sweater ever sold at auction and more than doubling its final bid of $137,000 from just four years ago. This was really kind of the security blanket of a sweater. So if you have upward of $300,000 sitting around, go ahead-win that auction and wear the cardigan around like some kind of emo Lebowski. 1:43 LOS ANGELES (AP) The olive green cardigan that Kurt Cobain wore during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance and one of the late rocker’s custom guitars are headed to auction. The leftovers went up for sale with a starting bid of $4,000. Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), performs with his group Nirvana at a taping of the television program ‘MTV Unplugged,’ New York City, on Nov. And then there’s the weirdest one: Apparently, Courtney Love wanted comic artist Dame Darcey to make a doll for her daughter, so she snagged some of Cobain’s hair for the project. If sweaters aren't your style, Cobain's hospital gown from Nirvana's 1992 Reading Fest show was also once on the market. There’s also been auctions for Nirvana Platinum and Gold record plaques, as well as various guitars, like Cobain’s from the final Nirvana tour. In May, a different (and honestly much cooler) Cobain cardigan-which he wore at a pre- In Utero photoshoot- sold for $75,000 at Julien’s. This is just one piece of the greater Cobain-oddities economy. 2150 List: 36. According to Julian, the winner of the 2015 auction (and the man re-auctioning the cardigan) is a businessman and Cobain die-hard: “He said it was an investment and that he would come back in some point in time when the time is right.” ![]()
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