Six paintings created for Kid A, Radiohead's album, up for auction

Thom Yorke was painting long before he started singing.

Before achieving success, he was just an average student at the art school of Exeter, with his classmate Stanley Donwood, who became a painter.

The two artists are known, in their own way: one for his voice, the other for the design of Radiohead album covers.

Indeed, since 1994 and the release of

, the British group's third EP, Stanley Donwood has continued to make the covers of all their albums.

From October 5 to 19, Christie's will auction off six paintings by Donwood, during the

sale

. But before finding a buyer, the paintings will be exhibited. Entitled

, it will be held from October 9 to 15 at Christie's in London. The price of each painting is estimated between 11,000 and 17,000 euros.

This series of winter landscapes served as essays before finding the perfect combination for the cover of

, Radiohead's fourth studio album, released in 2000. Stanley Donwood painted them between 1999 and 2001, in a rehabilitated barn. Initially, the group bought it as a recording studio with the money they earned from their previous album,

, released in 1997.

“

,” the painter said in a statement.

Kid A.

The

album

twenty-one. For the occasion, Radiohead announced a reissue of

(2000) and

(2001), his twin albums recorded at the same sessions, in the anniversary edition

. According to Thom Yorke, it is “

In addition to the reissue is added a third bonus disc,

full of recordings never revealed. The first single, the mysterious

, is already available.