Collection Of Kurt Cobain Artwork sold to a Private Collector

I recently discovered an incredible collection of Kurt Cobain artwork that had been in the possession of a close associate of Nirvana. This cartoon, titled “Food Chain” and signed Kurdt Kobane, was one of eleven pieces sold to a private collector.

Artwork by Kurt Cobain rarely appears on the collectors market, a handful of pieces Cobain did at school were sold from the collection of one of his former art teachers but the pieces in this collection mostly dated from the Nirvana era. An incredible insight into Cobain’s bizarre and twisted imagination.

Rare Sex Pistols poster sold

This highly rare concert poster was produced for the first Sex Pistols concert outside of the U.K. at the Chalet Du Lac Club, Paris on 3rd September, 1976. The artwork was designed by Malcolm McLaren and is typically controversial, depicting a naked adolescent boy smoking a cigarette. It is thought that fewer than 100 of these posters were printed in the U.K. and sent to the concert promoter in Paris and few have survived.

I recently sold one of these posters which was in absolute mint condition, the promoter having held on to a handful of copies in the original packaging ever since 1976. Just one more of these is available so please feel free to contact me if interested in purchasing.

Discovery of rare signed Beatles concert programme

I recently discovered a rare signed Beatles programme in mint condition. The programme was for the 1963 Beatles and Roy Orbison Tour and was additionally signed by Roy Orbison . The owner obtained the signatures himself backstage at Sheffield City Hall on 25 May, 1963, he worked for the booking agent Wilson Peck and sold the programmes before many of the big concerts at the time. The programme had been kept in mint condition, with exceptionally clear signatures.

The programme has been sold to a private U.S. collector but we are always looking to buy similar pieces. If you would like a valuation of your memorabilia, please feel free to e-mail me.

Helen

Helen Hall Brokers Sale Of Kurt Cobain Guitar For $100,000

Report From Associated Press:

A smashed guitar from the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000.

Helen Hall, a broker in England, says it’s the second-highest known price for an item of Cobain memorabilia. The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo.

The sale was confirmed Tuesday by Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the taped-up Fender Mustang guitar in sunburst finish was displayed for a time.

“It’s a really cool-looking guitar because it’s smashed and held together with duct tape and Kurt Cobain wrote on it,” McMurray said.

Sluggo said he traded a working guitar for the smashed one during the first U.S. tour of Cobain’s band, Nirvana.

McMurray said Nirvana, living hand-to-mouth, was on a tour in New Jersey when Cobain smashed the guitar on stage and went looking for one to play at his next gig.

The swap was made while Cobain was staying at the apartment of Sluggo, who goes only by that name, and Sluggo’s girlfriend, McMurray said.

He said he hoped the buyer would allow the instrument to return to Seattle for a Cobain exhibit he is preparing for 2010.

“There’s not a huge amount of broken Nirvana guitars out there,” McMurray said, adding that most amount to “little slivers and fragments.”

A news release from Hall said the highest price paid for a piece of Cobain memorabilia was $131,000 at a 2006 auction for his Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar.