Kurt Cobain collection

A left-handed Fender Mustang, a worn-out cardigan and a raspy voice that cracks at the end of a line: Kurt Cobain's signature comes down to very little. Born in 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington, he formed Nirvana in 1987 with Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl joined in 1990. Everything changed with Nevermind in 1991: Smells Like Teen Spirit played on a loop on MTV, the album climbed to number one on the Billboard 200 in 1992 and grunge left the smoky clubs of Seattle! Then came In Utero in 1993, followed by the MTV Unplugged in New York session recorded the same year, acoustic guitar and dim lighting, which won a Grammy Award in 1996. He died in 1994 at twenty-seven, and the author of Come As You Are left behind a short, abrasive and fractured body of work. His face and his words still appear on t-shirts, in the books that retrace his journey and on the shelves of figure collectors.