KAWS Brown GONE (KAWS GONE brown & blue)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging. A well-received work and variation of
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS HOLIDAY Japan (KAWS brown companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Brown Holiday Companion (KAWS Mount Fuji Japan): This sold out figurine features KAWS
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Holiday Companion (KAWS brown holiday companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS 'Holiday' Companion Seoul: This figurine was published by All Rights Reserved to commemorate
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Brown & KAWS Blue BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019): Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Japan Holiday Companion (KAWS brown Mount Fuji companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Brown Holiday Companion (KAWS Mount Fuji Japan): This sold out figurine features KAWS
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS, 'SHARE' Open Edition Vinyl Art Toy, Brown/Blue, 2020
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
The ‘KAWS SHARE 20’ is a vinyl art toy in a neutral brown and cobalt blue color scheme made in
Vinyl
KAWS, 'SHARE' Open Edition Vinyl Art Toy, Brown/Blue, 2020
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
The ‘KAWS SHARE 20’ is a vinyl art toy in a neutral brown and cobalt blue color scheme made in
Vinyl
KAWS Brown GONE (KAWS GONE brown & blue)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging. A well-received work and variation of
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE Brown (KAWS brown & blue gone)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging. A well-received work and variation of
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Holiday Companion (KAWS brown companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS 'Holiday' Companion This figurine was published by All Rights Reserved to commemorate the
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Holiday Companion (KAWS brown companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS 'Holiday' Companion This figurine was published by All Rights Reserved to commemorate the
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Brown & KAWS Blue BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019): Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Blush Companion 2016 (KAWS Flayed)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Blush Flayed Companion 2016: New and sealed in its original packaging. Published by Medicom Japan in conjunction with the exhibition, KAWS: Where The End Starts at the Modern Ar...
Resin, Vinyl
$3,400
H 35.5 in W 25.5 in
Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum 1986 (Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum poster 1986)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum 1986: Rare original, silkscreened Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum exhibition poster, 1986. Designed & illustrated by Haring on the occasion of: 'Keith Har...
Paper, Screen
KAWS COMPANION 2020 (KAWS black companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS 2020 Companion (Black): KAWS COMPANION 2020 was created by KAWS to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his signature figure, Companion — and as cultural commentary on a year we...
Resin, Vinyl
$3,600
H 29 in W 23 in
Keith Haring Fun Gallery exhibition poster 1983 (vintage Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fun Gallery 1983: Original 1983 Keith Haring illustrated exhibition poster published on the occasion of Haring's historic 1983 show at the Fun Gallery in the East Villag...
Lithograph, Offset
$8,000
H 19.25 in W 26.5 in
Damien Hirst Spin Painting (Damien Hirst shark spin painting)
By Damien Hirst
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Damien Hirst Spin Painting 2009: A mesmerizing Damien Hirst Spin painting with explosions of vivid color amidst the timeless, mysterious form of a shark. This Damien Hirst Spin paint...
Paper, Acrylic
Keith Haring Luna Luna 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Luna Luna Karussell. A Poetic Extravaganza!, 1986 (Keith haring Luna Luna): Luna Luna "was organized by Andre Heller for “A Fair with Modern Art,” Hamburg in 1987 and re...
Offset, Paper
$9,000
H 27 in W 20 in
Damien Hirst Spin Painting (Damien Hirst Skull spin painting)
By Damien Hirst
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Damien Hirst Spin Painting, 2009 (Damien Hirst Skull): A mesmerizing Damien Hirst Spin painting with explosions of vivid color amidst the timeless, mysterious form of a standout Hirs...
Paper, Acrylic
KAWS Red Blush companions (complete set of 2 works KAWS Companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Red Blush Companions: complete set of 2 works: New and sealed in their original packaging. Published by Medicom Japan in conjunction with the exhibition, KAWS: Where The End Sta...
Resin, Vinyl
Joan Cornellà Idiotmeter Man (Green)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Joan Cornellà Idiotmeter Man (Green): Idiotmeter Man represents Joan Cornellà's signature character clad in a kelly green suit and holding a scanner gun that presumably notifies one ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS HOLIDAY Space & United Kingdom (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS HOLIDAY SPACE (Silver) & KAWS HOLIDAY United Kingdom: set of two works (2020/2021): This set features two KAWS Holiday pieces: KAWS HOLIDAY SPACE is a celebration of 20 years o...
Resin, Vinyl, Polyurethane
Keith Haring Crack Down! (Keith Haring 1986)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Crack Down! 1986: Vintage original Keith Haring anti-drug poster, 1986. Off-set lithograph on heavy weight paper. Dimensions: 17 x 22 inches. Minor signs of handling; ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Subway Drawings 1983 (exhibition catalog)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York City Subway Drawings, 1983: Rare early exhibition catalog/pamphlet illustrated by Keith Haring on the occasion of: "Keith Haring / New-York City Subway Drawings...
Lithograph, Offset
KAWS UK Holiday Black (KAWS Holiday UK)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS: HOLIDAY United Kingdom Black (KAWS UK): KAWS' signature character COMPANION presented in an upright standing position with its eyes covered. New in their original packaging - ...
Resin, Vinyl
Keith Haring Museumjournaal 1982 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 1982: A rare printed announcement card offset illustrated by Keith Haring to promote the Dutch art publication, Museumjournaal. Medium: offset printed announcement card...
Lithograph, Offset
KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Grey & KAWS Pink BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019): Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast Resin (applies to each work). Published 2017 & 2019, respectively. GONE: 14.25 x 7 i...
Resin, Vinyl
$1,150
H 7 in W 5.5 in
Ed Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass 1968 (1st edition)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Ed Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass 1968: 1st edition of Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass. The highly collectible Ed Ruscha artsit book featuring prin...
Paper
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 creates all kinds of art — there are KAWS figures and toys, sculptures and colorful drawings, 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 KAWS statues and other 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.
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