Andy Warhol Covers For the $2,000 Bin
Someone mentioned this one in the comments: Jay Jay Johnson, Kai Winding, Bennie Green, Trombone by Three, Prestige 16-4. This is a rare item, a 16-RPM record with a cover design by Andy Warhol. We’ve seen it sell for nearly $300 in VG++ condition in the Jazz Collector Price Guide. Which did not prepare us for this one, which was in mere G condition for the record and just VG for the cover. It sold for $2,000.
Here’s another jazz record with a cover by Andy Warhol: Conte Candoli, Cool Gabriels, Groove 1003. I have to admit, this is one I’ve never seen before. The record was in VG++ condition and the cover was VG++ as well. The price for this one was also $2,000.
Since we’re already in the $2,000 bin, here’s one more:
Bent Axen, Jazz Quintet 60, Metronome MLP 15124. This was an original Danish pressing and it was listed in VG++ condition for both the record and the cover. It sold for $2,015.
For a long time, the Cool Gabriels was a sought after record, but i think this is really the Warhol cover that explains the 2000 final price.
strange, it went from $300 to $2000 in one bid
Are we witnessing a clash between record collectors and Warhol collectors?
Anybody see the Warhol
Spanish language LP’s going for over $7000! A second went for around $4500 as well. Warhol is skying again as the upper level art market is in serious revival mode.
I’m curious, how many people out there collect Warhol covers beyond collecting the records otherwise. Im wondering if the same people are into the Warhol covers that are into jazz records or are the Warhol collectors separate.
Hello All
What your seeing is the art world.
How many of these covers do you think have survived over the last 55 years, not many. The prices will continue to go higher
That’s what I figured too.
I mean, that explains why a re-issue of “The Congregation” can go for $75.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/ANDY-WARHOL-ALBUM-COVER-ART-BLUE-NOTE-JAZZ-ALBUM-NMINT-/330532305528?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cf542ba78#ht_500wt_834
Aha! A “sixteen revolutions per minute” record. The 1974 Philips stereo set of my parents plays 16, 33, 45 and 78rpm. They keep it upstairs and it still works flawlessly. I’ve never actually seen a 16rpm record in the flesh, only online. Could it be that the Andy Warhol fetched two grand, simply because that 16rpm pressing in itself is already a collector’s item? You’d also expect that with 16rpm, that record contains double the playtime of a regular 33rpm pressing 😛
And that Scorpio reissue of Johnny Griffin fetching 75 bucks is just ridiculous. They’re easily available for a nice price everywhere if you’re goal is to only frame them, as the seller says.
I paid 11 for my Scorpio reissue of that griffin brand new if I remember right. If I have the time it’s going on eBay.
And i paid my NM Cool Gabriels 66 $ on Ebay three years ago. Will not go to Ebay, but….,one never knows…
I don’t know when I acquired it, but gather i paid the regular price ($ 3.98 or 4.98). I never played it though, since it is not an appealing record, really. Michel, can you tell me please, how is the music?? I am not in the position to pull it out from the shelf and listen to it.
was talking about the Cool Gabriels. The 16 rpm is nice, but not essential, since issued on 33 rpm before.
“strange, it went from $300 to $2000 in one bid”
I still find some of the things that happen on ebay hard to accept at face value.
Those dozen mysterious triple-price hikes on December 27th last – I have checked from time to time, lost interest now, and there has never been any feedback on the sellers site for even one of those dozen fortuitous sales.
YouI call to mind the line attributed to Alfred Hitchcock: “Murder is easy. The difficult part is disposing of the body”
Anyone have a record with and warhol art that is a silkscreen that says giant size $1.57 the record is interviews taken in 1963 at art exhibition in washington. Here is the cover art.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/0a98d7cac4fa72200294708d55311843/2134899.jpg
i just saw a trombone by three with warhal art on the cover up for grabs on ebay. it goes off tonight. i’m watching it. i don’t have 2 grand to bid if it goes that high. i agree that the art collectors have this one in their sights.
Hello there i am trying to find a good place to link to a auction i am selling with a small swedish band that Andy Warhol Did the coverart. It was pressed in probebly maximum 300 copies. And it was one of his last works 1984. The reason why he did the coverart was that one of the bandmembers father knowed andy warhol and asked him if he wanted to do the cover. So here is a directlink to the Auction i have up. http://www.tradera.com/rat-fab-det-brinner-en-eld-aor-pop-1984-7-rare-auktion_340432_151486660 And to see that this is true that andy did the coverart go to this url http://www.warhol.org/connect/blogs/tc/The-View-from-The-Hamster-Cage/
Happy bidding.;)