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New York."> New York (AFP) – A guitar by Eric Clapton, set-lists scribbled by Kurt Cobain, a Versace jacket by Whitney Houston: a thousand objects belonging to legends – living or dead – of American and British rock since the 1960s will be sold to auction in New York.
According to Julien’s Auctions, which presented it to the press on Monday, before the sale on November 19 and 20 in a restaurant in Times Square in Manhattan, there will be nearly 1,000 artefacts and various objects that have passed through the hands. the Beatles, U2, Guns N’Roses Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley and George Michael.
The highlight of Julien’s sale this year – as the big auction houses resume face-to-face sessions – should be an acoustic guitar by Eric Clapton, a Martin D-45 from 1968, estimated at between 300,000 and a half. million dollars, according to company director Martin Nolan.
Like his colleagues at the giants of the sector, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, Martin Nolan describes the art market as “very, very hot with prices that will hit the ceiling”.
The guitar sold next weekend was used by Clapton at a first live concert in 1970 with his band Derek and The Dominos.
Today, half a century later, the legendary 76-year-old British guitarist is severely criticized in the American press for having espoused certain theories of the anti-vaccine and anti-confinement movement against Covid-19.
He is also accused of having become a “conspirator” and a “racist”.
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Asked about these controversies, especially in articles in Rolling Stones magazine and the Washington Post in recent weeks, Martin Nolan replied that “there will always be something controversial (…) in each of the stars represented” at this sale at auction.
Another piece that promises to cause a sensation, a hand-scribbled setlist by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, world famous tracks “Come As You Are” and “About A Girl “.
Last year, Julien’s Auctions blew up the counters by selling a Cobain guitar for six million dollars on which he had played during a famous “MTV Unplugged” concert in 1993.
The world record for this instrument sold at auction still stands.
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