The left-handed Fender Mustang guitar, "the favorite" of the Nirvana frontman, used on Nirvana's last tour in 1993-1994, was sold at auction for more than 1.5 million dollars (about 1.3 million euros), said Julien's Auctions, in a statement released on Friday.
The instrument auctioned in Nashville, Tennessee, is intact, unlike many of the guitars broken on stage by the grunge legend. In May, a black Fender Stratocaster, destroyed by Cobain, was sold for 595 thousand euros at auction at the Hard Rock Café in New York.
After marking a generation of Nirvana fans with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come as You Are", Kurt Cobain He committed suicide in April 1994, aged 27.
On Thursday, Julien's Auctions also sold an Eric Clapton guitar for around 1.3 million dollars (1.2 million euros). Nicknamed "The Fool", this Gibson SG is strongly associated with the singer's period with the band Cream, in which he produced one of the most characteristic sounds in rock.
The custom, psychedelic decor makes this guitar one of rock's most recognizable instruments and a symbol of the "Summer of Love," the 1967 counterculture movement that shaped a generation. Eric Clapton first used "The Fool" on Cream's first US tour.