“I love it, it’s very uniquely Prince – though it’s weirdly heavy, which you wouldn’t necessarily expect from its diminutive size,” says Christie’s Amelia Walker of the fluoro yellow, baroque-looking Cloud guitar, built around 1993, that originally belonged to the pop-funk genius himself and just sold for $635,000 as part of the Jim Irsay Collection.
“Prince’s Cloud guitars have come up at auction previously and have quite a range of value points depending on what era they are and what they were used for,” she explains, “and whether they were one of the first four, built by Dave Rusan from 1985 to ’93, one of those made by Andy Beech from ’93 onwards, or later Schecters.
