Two album cover artworks

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Lot 567 | Two album cover artworks
MONK, Thelonious Sphere (1917-1982).

Two original album cover artworks designed by Columbia Records art directors John Berg and Peter A. Alfieri for Thelonious Monk live albums, 1980s: the first for the 1982 live album Thelonious Monk – Live at the Jazz Workshop, featuring a photograph by Don Hunstein and colour tinting by Ken Robbins, annotated in pencil at lower edge ‘Art Ken Robbins. Photo Don Hunstein. Thelonius [sic] Monk’, 410 x 355 mm; the second for the 1984 double album Thelonious Monk – Tokyo Concerts, featuring a photograph by Bob Parent and colour tinting by Ken Robbins, 400 x 405 mm; accompanied by a copy of each album.
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