# Kurt Cobain - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:46:08.489Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 10
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2008-05-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-13
- Median realised price: $1,188
- Price range: $15 to $769,000

## Market Takeaway
Kurt Cobain has 10 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,188. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,188\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($35 to $8,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 37.5% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37.5% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 25% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $15
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-13
- Days since latest sale: 168
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- GWS Auctions: 3 lots
- 3 b's auction: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots
- Julien's Auctions: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- R & R Auction INC: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-13 | Kurt Cobain \(1967\-1994\) Nirvana frontman, Beacon A | Ewbank's | £200
2. 2024-09-12 | Kurt Cobain | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2024-07-28 | KURT COBAIN \(1967\-1994\) "I'm not like them but I | R & R Auction INC | $15
4. 2023-12-02 | Kurt Cobain Signed Pencil Drawing in Framed Display | GWS Auctions | $2,400
5. 2022-10-13 | kurt cobain pop figurine | 3 b's auction | $35
6. 2008-05-13 | Kurt Cobain | Christie's | $769,000
7. 2025-05-31 | Nirvana \| Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic Studio Played Photo Matched Hilversum Session 1989 Warwick Dolphin Pro I Electric Bass Guitar, Natural Oil Finish with Magazine | Julien's Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nirvana-kurt-cobain-and-krist-novoselic-studio-played-photo-matched-hilversum-session-1989-warwick-dolphin-pro-i-electric-bass-guitar-natural-oil-finish-with-magazine-559-c-596401684d
8. 2024-03-30 | Kurt Cobain Signed and Played Teisco Del Ray EV\-2T Electric Guitar | GWS Auctions | $8,000
9. 2023-08-26 | Kurt Cobain Signed and Played Teisco Del Ray EV\-2T Electric Guitar | GWS Auctions | $120,000
10. 2008-09-06 | Kurt Cobain, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1993 | Phillips | £1,188

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