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KAWSWarm Regards - brown2009
2009

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- CreatorKAWS (American)
- Creation Year2009
- DimensionsHeight: 6.5 in. (16.51 cm)Width: 3.5 in. (8.89 cm)Depth: 1 in. (2.54 cm)
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- Movement & Style
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- Gallery LocationLondon, GB
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU160829876782
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About the Artist
KAWS
In the beginning, Brian Donnelly was just a kid from Jersey City, New Jersey, who got into the graffiti thing. KAWS was his tag, chosen simply because he liked the way it looked. Today, KAWS’s oeuvre encompasses art toys, sculptures and colorful paintings and prints that appropriate pop phenomena like the Smurfs, the Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants.
In the late 1990s, the artist, a 1996 graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, was making a living as an illustrator for the animation studio Jumbo Pictures. Like young Hansel and Gretel with their trail of crumbs, KAWS would mark the morning route to his downtown Manhattan office with “subvertising,” “interrupting” fashion advertisements by adding his colorful character Bendy, its sinuous length sliding playfully around the likes of a Calvin Klein perfume bottle or supermodel Christy Turlington.
These creations gained a following, to the point where work posted in the morning would disappear by lunchtime. Even in those early days, KAWS was hot on the resale market.
“When I was doing graffiti,” he once explained, “it meant nothing to me to make paintings if I wasn’t reaching people.” Instead of seeking entrée to the elite New York art world (which, frankly, wasn’t looking for a street artist anyway), KAWS moved to Japan, where a flourishing youth culture welcomed visionaries like him.
In 1999, he partnered with Bounty Hunter, a Japanese toy and streetwear brand, to release his first toy. Companion — an eight-inch-tall vinyl reimagining of Mickey Mouse, with a skull-and-crossbones head and trademark XX eyes — debuted with a limited run of 500. It sold out quickly.
Companion was the first of more than 130 toy designs, which came to include such characters as Chum, Blitz, Be@rbrick, BFF and Milo, each immediately recognizable as KAWS figures by their XX eyes. Fans have proved insatiable. In 2017, MoMA’s online store announced the availability of a limited supply of KAWS Companion figures; as avid collectors logged on to stake their claim, the website crashed — multiple times.
Companion is the most visible of the KAWS posse, appearing over the past decade in new postures and combinations in monumental works. These include Along the Way (2013), an 18-foot-tall wooden sculpture of two Companions leaning on each other for support; Together (2016), two Companions in a friendly embrace, which debuted during an exhibition of KAWS’s work at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, in Texas; and KAWS:HOLIDAY (2018), a 92-foot-long inflatable Companion floating on its back in Seoul’s Seokchon Lake. The sculptures were re-created as toys, blurring the lines between art and commerce.
KAWS’s visual language may be drawn from cartoons, but his work doesn’t necessarily evoke childlike joy. “My figures are not always reflecting the idealistic cartoon view that I grew up on,” he explains in the catalogue for the Fort Worth exhibition. “Companion is more real in dealing with contemporary human circumstances . . . . I think when I’m making work it also often mirrors what’s going on with me at that time.”
KAWS's résumé reads like a record of major 21st-century pop-culture moments. It includes his work with streetwear brands like A Bathing Ape and Supreme; his design for the cover of Kanye West’s 2008 album, 808s & Heartbreak; and his collaboration with designer Kim Jones on the Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2019 collection, Jones’s debut as the fashion brand’s creative director.
Learn how to spot a fake KAWS art toy, and browse authentic KAWS prints, sculptures and mixed media works on 1stDibs.
- Warm Regards - pinkBy KAWSLocated in London, GBPainted cast vinyl Released in 2009 Sold in mint condition 6.5 X 3.5 X 1 inches (16.5 X 8.9 X 2.5 cm)Category
2010s Street Art Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsPVC
- Warm Regards - whiteBy KAWSLocated in London, GBPainted cast vinyl Released in 2009 Sold in mint condition 6.5 X 3.5 X 1 inches (16.5 X 8.9 X 2.5 cm)Category
2010s Street Art Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsPVC
- KAWS Family Vinyl Figures SetBy KAWSLocated in London, GBKaws 'Family' set - the complete set. Sold out and now highly collectable. Sold in mint condition, in original publisher packaging as issued.Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Sculptures
MaterialsPVC
- KAWS Ceramic TeapotBy KAWSLocated in London, GBSold out and now highly collectable. Sold in mint, 'as new' condition, unused and in original publisher packaging (as issued).Category
2010s Street Art Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsCeramic
- Share - complete set of 3By KAWSLocated in London, GBPainted cast vinyl Complete set of 3 (grey, brown, black) Each measures 12.4 X 6.3 X 3.94 inches (31.5 X 16 X 10 cm) Sold in mint condition, in original packaging as issued.Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsPVC
- Holiday Japan Mount Fuji, blueBy KAWSLocated in London, GBPolyester fur Open Edition 21cm (8.26 in) Unsigned, numbered. 'As new' condition, as issued.Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Sculptures
MaterialsPVC
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