Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's iconic Black Strat has fetched a whopping $14.5 million at an auction of guitars belonging to the late Jim Irsay, former owner of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.
The staggering figure makes Gilmour's Black Strat the most expensive guitar ever sold at an auction.
The guitar, which Gilmour played on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, was previously sold for $3,975,000 at a Christie's auction in 2019, during a sale of 127 items from Gilmour's personal collection to raise money for ClientEarth, a group of lawyers and environmental experts fighting against climate change to protect nature and the environment.
A portion of the proceeds of the latest sale, which smashed the $6 million price paid in 2020 for the equally iconic 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic played by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged show, will be donated to philanthropic causes.
Other guitars in Irsay's collection include a Doug Irwin guitar played by Jerry Garcia during his final show with the Grateful Dead, sold for $11.5 million at the auction.
Other sales at the latest auction include a 1964 Rickenbacker owned by John Lennon ($1.27m), a 1964 Gibson SG used by George Harrison ($2.27m), a one-off Vox made for the Beatles in 1966 ($600k), Eric Clapton's "The Fool" Gibson SG ($3m), the Fender Mustang played by Kurt Cobain on Smells Like Teen Spirit ($6m) and a Martin 000-42 acoustic guitar used by Eric Clapton used on his MTV Unplugged album ($4.1m).
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