Stanley Donwood's Kid A paintings sell for £625,000 at Christie's

All six of Stanley Donwood's Kid A paintings sold when Christie's online sale closed today, for £625,000 between them. Each had been estimated at £10,000 to £15,000. Christie's prices include the buyer's premium.

The canvases date from 1999 to 2001 and are close relations of the Kid A sleeve. They are big acrylics, most about 167 cm square, some worked over with charcoal, collage, spray paint or oil stick.

Before bidding closed they hung at Christie's in London from 9 to 15 October in How to Disappear Completely: Stanley Donwood x Thom Yorke, with drawings, lyrics and digital art that Donwood and Thom Yorke chose. The sale was timed for the album's 21st anniversary, ahead of the Kid A Mnesia reissue on 5 November.

Donwood's auction record before the sale, the September press reported, was £16,250, paid for Kabul at Phillips in London in 2009. All six beat it. Residential Nemesis went for £137,500, more than eight times as much, after the hammer came down at £110,000. In the whole of First Open, the post-war and contemporary sale the paintings were part of, only two drawings by Yves Saint Laurent did as well.

The six lots