Jean Michel Basquiat's 1984 design for the cover of The Off's First Record

Additional pictures to follow Jean Michel Basquiat's 1984 design for the cover of The Off's First Record Unknown Edition. PleSe do your ow research. I’m not a qualified art dealer to provide specifics other than its unique and rarity it COOL… Unknown edition The edition run has ended; it is unclear how many works were produced. Features album cover only. Framed. The Album was not included when I purchased it from a record store in Toronto 5 years ago Price is fair. And firm. If it’s not of interest do not bid. This is Authentic and limited Jean-Michel Basquiat was a music fanatic and wannabe drummer who before he hit superstardom as a visual artist often needed cash—fast. Sometimes the two worlds collided. Once was in 1981 when the young Basquiat agreed to design an album sleeve for his friends in the punk-ska band, The Offs, in exchange for $400, which his mother needed to pay her rent. Basquiat’s design for the album, called simply First Record, included some of the earliest examples of motifs that would come to define his work—a cartoon-like, black-and-white totemic figure standing atop a triangular mound with a crown of thorns hovering above his head. The punk band’s name appears written in Basquiat’s signature scrawl in three spots. Today, original copies of the album sell for thousands of dollars.