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LIVE NIRVANA GUIDE TO KURT COBAIN'S ART Paintings

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  1. Painting of a house on fire. Published in Cobain: Montage Of Heck.
  2. Painting of a house on a hill. Published in Cobain Unseen.
  3. Painting of a coastal view, with a seagull sitting on a dock post in the foreground and a setting Sun in the background. Displayed at the Kurt Cobain: Más allá de la música exhibition in Chile, 2018.
  4. Painting of a sea view, with a boat sailing on the horizon. Displayed at the Kurt Cobain: Más allá de la música exhibition in Chile, 2018.
  5. Painting of a lighthouse, dated 1980. Published in Cobain Unseen.
  6. Painting of a lighthouse, dated 1980. Used for the front cover of Beverly Cobain's book, When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide For Depressed Teens.
  7. Painting of a harbor, dated 1980.
  8. Painting of an Old Milwaukee beer can with two pretzels, set against a blue background. Signed at lower right "Kurt 80."
  9. Painting based on the film King Kong.
  10. Painting based on the film Creature from the Black Lagoon.
  11. Painting based on the film Planet of the Apes.
  12. Painting based on the film Jaws.
  13. Painting based on the film Rocky II.
  14. Painting of a Native American man.
  15. Painting of a koala clinging to a tree branch.
  16. Painting of four raccoons in a black tree, set against a red and orange background. Published in Cobain: Montage Of Heck.
  17. Airbrush illustration of an abstract landscape, circa 1982-84. Signed "Cobain" in red felt tip on the lower right corner.
  18. Airbrush illustration of a guitarist playing in the middle of an abstract landscape, circa 1982-84. This piece was painted as a practice sketch before completing a final school assignment.
  19. Airbrush illustration of a couple of two aging, Reagan-era punks in the post-apocalypse. Informally known as "Punk American Gothic."
  20. Painting of a man on a desert island, playing a Les Paul guitar with an amplifier plugged into a palm tree. This painting is estimated to have been made in 1983.
  21. Painting on the glovebox door of a Volkswagen Beetle, formerly owned by Gary/Chris Cobain.
  22. Painting of Iron Maiden mascot "Eddie" from the album Killers, estimated to have been made in 1985. Previously owned by Kurt's friend Cameron Ross.
  23. Painting of an alien-like figure, estimated to have been made in 1983. Previous owners include Mike Ziegler of the NLG.
  24. Painting of an alien-like figure holding a yellow rose flower in its hand.
  25. Painting of a skinny figure, doubled up with what appears to be a broken and bleeding anus and surrounded by brightly colored flowers.
  26. Painting of a reclining pale and emaciated figure with an elongated neck, set against a colorful background. Featured in Nick Broomfield's Kurt & Courtney documentary.
  27. Painting of a fetus surrounded by white, thorn-like capillaries. Featured in Nick Broomfield's Kurt & Courtney documentary.
  28. Painting made on the back of a board game of an alien-like figure, crouched over and weeping?, with faces of a woman and a mustached man in the background.
  29. Painting of a child with a warped eye and crooked smile, dressed in a cloak and pointed hat, surrounded by white match-stick figures, birds and bees.
  30. Painting of a child with a warped eye and crooked smile, dressed in a cloak and pointed hat, surrounded by white match-stick figures, birds, bees and a house on a hill.
  31. Painting featuring a child with a warped eye and a crooked smile, an erect penis, a fetus, a black skeletal figure and a red seahorse.
  32. Abstract painting resembling a large pool of blood with drip trails and drops in all directions.
  33. Painting with blood-red crosses in the foreground and a brilliant-white madonna in the background.
  34. Painting with two central figures - one white and featureless, the other a suspended marionette with wings and an exposed penis; a cat is pictured in the bottom-left corner, a small marionette in the bottom-right corner, and a stripy-legged fairy in the top-right corner. Titled "Hyperpylaurie Fistula Rectal Abscess Gastroenteritis Conjunctivitis Spinabiffida."
  35. Painting of a large marionette cradling a poppy in the crook of its arm, with a small child-like marionette clinging to its shoulder. Used for the front cover of the Incesticide release. Displayed at the Seattle Art Fair exhibition, 2017.
  36. Painting of a feminine-looking marionette set against a yellow background. Used for the front cover of the Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings album (deluxe edition). Displayed at the Seattle Art Fair exhibition, 2017.
  37. Painting of a marionette and a seahorse; the marionette appears to be lighting a fire using a hand-drill. Used for the front cover of the Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings album (standard edition).
  38. Crayon painting of a deformed fetus smoking a crack pipe against a colorful background. Cobain has written "NIRVANA" in the top-left corner and "Crack Babies" in the bottom-right corner of the page. Displayed at the Seattle Art Fair exhibition, 2017.
  39. Abstract painting - thought to be a cover art design idea for Michael Azerrad's book, Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana - with "NIRVANA / Come As You Are / By Michael Azzerad" [sic] written around the margin.
  40. Painting of a ghostly-looking face with its features shaded in pink. Displayed at the Seattle Art Fair exhibition, 2017.