The legendary olive green waistcoat by Nirvana band singer Kurt Cobain, worn during the recording of the unplugged concert of 1993 and never washed, left for $ 334,000 on Saturday at auction in New York. The seller, Garrett Kletjian, owner of a motor racing team (Forty7 Motorsports), bought it four years ago for $ 137,500.
This vest is a vintage model, the Manhattan brand, now missing, which bears marks, including a cigarette hole, and has never been washed. It was estimated between $ 200,000 and $ 300,000 by the auction house, Julien's Auctions. The "Unplugged" concert, recorded in New York on November 18, 1993 for the MTV music channel, is the culmination of the most influential rock band of the 90s, which has crystallized around it a musical movement, the grunge.
One of his guitars also sold
The acoustic stage performance ("Unplugged" means unplugged) occurred less than six months before Kurt Cobain's suicide, on 5 April 1994, was depressive and heroin dependent. The guitarist and singer will not have known the release of "Unplugged", which would rise to the forefront of record sales as soon as it was released in November 1994. According to the specialized magazine Billboard, it has passed more than five millions of copies in the United States.
On Saturday, another object that once belonged to Kurt Cobain, his left-handed Fender Mustang guitar used during the "In Utero" tour, was sold for $ 340,000.