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Visual Gallery is proud to have titles in the "Record Art Collection" for sale here. The series of prints released in the 90s by "Record Art" and "MUSICOM" featuring the original artwork used for some of rock and rolls greatest albums. Bands represented include The Who, ACDC, CREAM, TRAFFIC, YES, Alice Cooper, BB King, RUSH, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and many others. Most of these prints are hard to find now ad some are very valuable. Check out our other listings for more!

- ITEM DESCRIPTION - 

This print was produced in 1990 by Record Art. This is the Artist Proof edition of 200 HAND SIGNED by HR Giger in pencil.  Comes with COA. We obtained this print from the original publisher.  

We have been dealing in hand signed album art lithographs since 1999. Size is ~22x26" #101/200

Will be professionally shipped lightly rolled in a large tube and fully insured. 

-SIZE-

approx 22x26 total size

-Condition-

Mint/Like New. Has been stored since purchase.

-Why You Need This- 

Fully authentic and well known in the collector community MUSICOM produced some of the great rock and roll cover art prints ever made. Quality is incredible and and MUSICOM's reputation for authenticity is beyond reproach. You can buy with confidence. Since Gigers passing his hand signed prints have been harder to find. 

-ABOUT THE COVER ART-

Giger painted two new pieces approximately the actual size of the vinyl record entitled Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II. The first painting was chosen by the group as the front cover. It contains the artist's distinctive monochromatic biomechanical artwork, integrating an industrial mechanism with a human skull and the new 'ELP' logotype, which was also designed by Giger and has been standard for Emerson, Lake & Palmer ever since. The lower part of the skull is covered by a circular screen, which displays the mouth and chin in its flesh-covered state, as well as what appears to be the top of a phallus below the chin, arising from the 'ELP' tube. Art director Fabio Nicoli insisted on a non-standard construction of the vinyl sleeve rather than being a normal gatefold. The front cover of the novelty triptych sleeve was split in half down the centre, except for the circular screen, which was attached to the right flap, and was opened up like a gate. Opening the flaps revealed the second painting, featuring the full face of a human female (modelled after Giger's partner Li Tobler) with ringlets of wire hair framing the closed eyes and multiple scars, including the infinity symbol and a scar from a frontal lobotomy. The illustration originally had the complete phallus, but when the artwork was presented to the record company, it was rejected and dismissed as pornographic. As Giger refused to take the penis off the painting, the group had another artist airbrush it into a shaft of glowing light.[26] The back cover was entirely black with the large white lettering 'Brain Salad Surgery'. Work 217: ELP I was also used as a custom label, with the spindle of the turntable penetrating through the lips. The vinyl packaging included a 12-panel fold-out poster with photographs of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, which were taken by Rosemary Adams.

When Manticore Records went defunct in 1977, Atlantic Records reissued the album with the initial design as well as with an ordinary vinyl packaging[nb 4], which consisted of simple non fold-out outer and inner sleeves. The 'face' painting was used as the back cover of the outer sleeve.

After the exhibition Giger in Prague was closed on 31 August 2005, the two original 34×34 cm acrylic-on-paper paintings Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II were lost or stolen[27] and have not yet been found.

Will be pro-shipped in a large tube.