Items by Kurt Cobain, including the Fender Mustang guitar he used in Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit music video, his 1965 Dodge Dart 170 car and several of his own artworks, are being sold at auction for the first time by Juliens Auctions.
The electric guitar used in the Smells Like Teen Spirit video, a 1969 Fender Mustang left-handed guitar with a blue finish, which the auction house says "changed music and the world" has a starting price of $600,000 800,000.
The guitar has been prominently displayed at Seattle's Experience Music Project, now called the MoPOP Museum of Pop Culture, for the past 12 years and was also photographed and selected for the famous The Guitar Collection, the collector's edition book of the top 150 guitars of all time.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Fender Mustang guitar and select items will be donated to the Kicking The Stigma campaign, an initiative of the Indianapolis Colts and owner Jim Ersey to raise awareness about mental health disorders and remove the stigma too often associated with these illnesses.
The auction is also selling the only known surviving car that Cobain drove, a 1965 Dodge Dart 170 4-door sedan. The car, nicknamed "Baby Blue," is estimated to sell for $400,000 to $600,000. The late singer's sister Kim has owned the vehicle for the past 28 years, which she bought from Courtney Love, Cobain's wife, after her brother's death.
Other items in the collection include the singer's artwork on the skateboard deck with the 1985 Iron Maiden mascot "Eddie" and a sketch of Michael Jackson signed by Kurt Cobain.
"Kurt Cobain has been such a major artistic and cultural force over the past 30 years and this auction celebrates Nirvana's indelible contribution to rock music and pop culture," said Jim Esray.
[BR][BR]Prior to the auction, items will be available for viewing at Juliens Auctions' gallery in Beverly Hills on April 11 through April 15, in the window of the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus in London on April 28 through May 3 and at the Hard Rock Café in New York's Times Square on May 16 through May 20.
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