$4,000
H 12 in W 9.5 in D 3 in
KAWS Book Phaidon Edition Brooklyn What Party Signed Edition Of 500
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
Condition: Book is in pristine condition and only opened to photograph the signature. Signature
Black and White
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Paper, Offset
KAWS Exposed 1999 (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
& much sought after photo-book of KAWS 1990’s street art - this publication uniquely stands out as the
Paper
KAWS, New Fiction Book, 2023
By KAWS
Located in Manchester, GB
KAWS, New Fiction Book, 2023 9 1/2 × 7 7/10 in 24.1 × 19.6 cm Hand-signed New Fiction hardback
Magazine Paper
KAWS Hand Signed Book Contemporary Street Art
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
The definitive study of the work of KAWS, one of the most influential and much-loved forces in
Archival Paper
$7,900
H 15 in W 10 in
KAWS Gone, 2019, Limited Edition Print and Limited Edition Exhibition Book
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
KAWS, 2019, Limited Edition screenprint from an edition 380 of 750. 15 in x 12 in. Signed and
Screen
Signed KAWS ONE monograph (signed KAWS Tokyo 2001)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Signed KAWS ONE Artist Book 2001: hand signed KAWS ONE artist book, Tokyo, Japan, 2001. An early
Paper
$1,000
H 8.8 in W 6.2 in
Exposed, early (1999) softcover monograph published in France, edition of 2000
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS Exposed, 1999 Early Illustrated softcover book with French folded flaps, published in Paris 8
Offset
KAWS cover art (Kaws illustrated Hypebeast 2016)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
unforgettable as the artist who fronts it." Related Categories Street Art. KAWS. Pop Art. Kaws 2016. Kaws book
Offset
KAWS Man's Best Friend (KAWS hardcover book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
KAWS cover art (Kaws illustrated Hypebeast 2016)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
fronts it." Related Categories Street Art. KAWS. Pop Art. Kaws 2016. Kaws book. Kaws catalog.
Offset
KAWS cover art (Kaws illustrated Hypebeast 2016)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
unforgettable as the artist who fronts it." Related Categories Street Art. KAWS. Pop Art. Kaws 2016. Kaws book
Offset
Signed KAWS artist book 2010 (KAWS Colette Rizzoli blue cover)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Hand signed & dedicated by KAWS at an exclusive 2010 in-store book signing event. Not to be confused
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset, Paper
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Paper, Offset
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Paper
KAWS One (early KAWS artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
KAWS Man's Best Friend (KAWS hardcover book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
KAWS Man's Best Friend (KAWS hardcover book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
KAWS One (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
KAWS One (early artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
KAWS One (early artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
KAWS One (early artist book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS One: KAWS Artist Monograph, 1st edition, 2001 Hardcover book, 80 pages Rare and out of print
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
KAWS Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Kaws Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 1st edition 2016 Black matte foil cover
Offset
Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 2016 Black matte foil cover and an
Offset
Man's Best Friend (Hardcover Book)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Man's Best Friend hardcover book 128 pages, English, 2016 Black matte foil cover and an
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H 8.5 in W 5.4 in
Jean-Michel Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery NY 1982-1988 (Basquiat Annina Nosei)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982-1988: A set of 3 rare vintage original Basquiat announcement cards from 1982, 1986, 1988, respectively - with 2 published d...
Lithograph, Offset
$500
H 6 in W 11 in
Takashi Murakami Kanye West 2007 (Takashi Murakami Louis Vuitton)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami, Kanye West, Louis Vuitton; Los Angeles 2007 (Murakami Gala): Rare folding invitation published on the occasion of a 2007 reception honoring Takashi Murakami and fa...
Offset, Paper
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy, 2018. New in its original packaging. Medium: Painted cast vinyl. Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 4 inches (22.9 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm). New, never displayed; accompanied by ...
Resin, Vinyl
$725
H 8 in W 9 in D 4 in
Hebru Brantley Flyboy black & gold (Hebru Brantley black flyboy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy, 2017. New, never displayed; accompanied by original packaging. Medium: Painted cast vinyl. Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 4 inches (22.9 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm). New and sea...
Resin, Vinyl
$1,600
H 39.5 in W 26.5 in
Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian gallery Los Angeles 1986 (exhibition poster)
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Gallery 1986: Original 1980’s Basquiat exhibition poster, published on the occasion of: Jean-Michel Basquiat at Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 North Robert...
Paper
$3,600
H 10.75 in W 17 in
Signed Keith Haring Pop Shop sweatshirt c.1986 (Keith Haring Radiant Baby)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare hand-signed Keith Haring Pop Shop sweatshirt circa 1986: A much historical hand-signed 1980s Keith Haring Pop Shop collectible produced during the early days of the famed Hari...
Cotton
$400
H 11 in W 5 in
Andy Warhol Brillo Bearbrick 400% & 100% art toys (Warhol Bearbrick)
By Andy Warhol
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol Bearbrick: Be@rbrick x Andy Warhol Foundation "Brillo" Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%): Andy Warhol (after) Brillo collectible trademarked & licensed by ...
Resin, Vinyl
Keith Haring Rain Dance 1985 (Keith Haring posters)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Rain Dance 1985: RARE original 1980s Keith Haring illustrated poster announcement for a Keith Haring UNICEF benefit party at Larry Levan’s legendary Paradise Garage in 1...
Offset, Lithograph
$2,450
H 13 in W 10 in
Jean-Michel Basquiat The New York Times Magazine, 1985
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Presented here is the rare iconic Basquiat New York Times Magazine 1985: The New York Times Magazine, February 10, 1985 edition famously entitled “New Art, New Money: The Marketing ...
Magazine Paper
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
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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