It’s a bid that would leave most bank accounts “Comfortably Numb.”

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s legendary 1969 “Black Strat” shattered the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction, as it went for $14.5 million Thursday night at a New York City auction house, The Post has learned.

The sale was made as part of Christie’s Jim Irsay Collection auction: a multi-day auction of music, movie and pop-culture memorabilia that once belonged to the late Indianapolis Colts owner. 

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s legendary 1969 “Black Strat” shattered the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction at a New York City auction house Thursday night. Future via Getty Images

The “Money” guitarist’s axe fetched more than twice the previous record — which was set by Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set, sold for $6.1 million in 2020.

A separate guitar played by Cobain in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video — a 1969 Fender Mustang — was also auctioned by Christie’s Thursday and went for $6.9 million, the most shelled out for any of the late grunge king’s instruments.

Gilmour’s record-setting guitar was snatched up by an anonymous buyer after a 21-minute bidding war. The rock legend played it on the recording of seminal albums like “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1793) and “The Wall” (1979).

“This was like the Super Bowl for this market,” auction attendee Thomas Scriven, 45, told The Post, “this is the biggest auction for music memorabilia.”

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“I came here initially to watch a friend of mine bid, but I’m a big guitar and music enthusiast,” added fellow attendee Shawn, 35, “and I think these are just icons and relics of an era that I hope I’ll see again — but maybe won’t.”

Gilmour purchased the guitar right across the street from Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza auction house at Manny’s Music in 1970, reps said.

The iconic guitar stayed with Gilmour throughout his entire career, appearing on every Pink Floyd album from 1970 to 1983 and all four of his solo records. AP

Pink Floyd was on tour in the US at the time when the band was robbed of all its instruments in New Orleans – effectively canceling the tour and sending other members back across the pond. 

Gilmour, however, stayed in New York and bought this guitar, which stayed with him throughout his entire career, appearing on every Pink Floyd album from 1970 to 1983 and all four of his solo records.

“It became my main guitar, the one I used pretty much on everything unless there was a reason to want a different sound,” the guitarist told Louder in 2019.

Gilmour’s guitar also broke records Thursday for the most expensive Stratocaster sold at an auction and for a David Gilmour object sold at an auction.

Gilmour’s guitar also broke records for the most expensive Stratocaster sold at an auction and for a David Gilmour object sold at an auction. AFP via Getty Images

The first night of the auction on Thursday sold over 44 items valued at over $89 million and set 22 records, reps said.

“Lot after lot, we felt like we were making history,” Christie’s Americas president Julien Pradels said in a statement.

Christie’s longtime auctioneer Tash Perrin told the Post afterwards it was “the thrill of a lifetime to know that the guitars, that all of these sales, are gonna go to the next generation, and the next custodians – to people that love these phenomenal objects.” 

The Jim Irsay Collection will continue with in-person and online auctions through March 17.

“Lot after lot we felt like we were making history,” Christie’s Americas president Julien Pradels said in a statement. Marie Pohl

Other treasures from the collection included Ringo Starr’s drum head used during The Beatles’ 1964 Ed Sullivan Show appearance – which fetched $2.9 million.

The highest record for any Beatles object was set at $3.2 million with John Lennon’s Broadwood Upright Piano, on which he composed “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

Janis Joplin, who was the only female musician with a guitar in the mix, saw her guitar sell for $381,000, making it the most expensive guitar owned by a woman.

Kurt Cobain’s beloved guitar used in the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video became the most expensive item ever sold belonging to the rockstar. Brian Zak/NY Post

The original typescript scroll for “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac sold for $12,135,000, setting the record for the highest price for a modern literary manuscript.

Tom Lecky, now a bookseller who had previously worked at Christie’s in the manuscript department when it sold the piece in 2001 to Irsay, bought Kerouac’s scroll on behalf of a client for $10 million dollars. 

 “This is one of the most significant manuscripts ever created, as a physical object, there’s nothing to compare it to,” he told The Post after the sale. 

“Once you’ve seen it, you have to have it. If you care about literature and you care about that book, it’s fabulous.”