$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
$245Sale Price|45% Off
H 10.2 in W 8.3 in
Banksy Captured (Pink First Edition Volume 2 Hardcover)
By Steve Lazarides
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Second volume by Banksy's ex-manager Steve Lazarides. Limited edition of 5000. This beautiful book
Paper
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
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
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
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 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
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
$2,707 / item
H 13.78 in W 47.25 in D 27.56 in
Organic Modern Center Table Jean in Natural Travertine Marble Stone
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Jean oval center table is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Jean center table is unique fea...
Marble
Balloon Dog (After) - Red
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular 999 pcs edition of the famous "Balloon Dog". Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authe...
Metal
Bearbrick 400% & 100% 8
By Keith Haring
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Bearbrick 400% & 100% 8
Plastic
$1,800 / item
H 26 in W 18 in D 18 in
Bertu Counter Stool, Cicely Modern Sheepskin Counter Stool, White Oak
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
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Sheepskin, Wood, Oak
$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
$250
H 7 in W 7 in
Basquiat Gray Limited Edition Vinyl record album & poster
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Basquiat Gray: Rare Gray 7" Vinyl Record Album featuring a limited photo card/poster of Jean Michel Basquiat and his band Gray at Hurrah's, NYC, 1979 by Nicholas Taylor of Gray. This...
Offset
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H 2.52 in W 1.85 in D 0.55 in
IMCO 6300 Primex 1953 Julius Franz Meister Petrol Lighter Chromed Steel In Box
Located in Miami, FL
Primex 6300 lighter designed by IMCO. This is a brilliantly engineered, unusual and quite ingenious semi-automatic pocket lighter designed by Julius Franz Meister in Austria, back i...
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Amuneal's Brass Pantry Cabinetry
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Located in New York, NY
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By Martinelli Luce, Gae Aulenti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Stainless Steel
$2,247 / set
H 31.5 in W 21.07 in D 20.87 in
Set of Czech Beech Bauhaus Armchairs, Vichr a Spol., Four Pieces, Chrome, 1930s
By Robert Slezák
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
Arm-chairs - 4 pcs Style: Bauhaus. Period: 1930-1939. Material: Beech and chrome Source: Czechia.
Chrome
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H 29.93 in W 20.08 in D 20.48 in
Set of 12 Lucite Pink and Chrome Plia Chairs, Piretti for Castelli, Italy 1970s
By Anonima Castelli, Giancarlo Piretti
Located in Roma, IT
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Steel, Chrome
Monumental Isamu Noguchi Akari 25N Floor Lamp
By Akari, Ozeki & Co. Ltd. 1, Isamu Noguchi
Located in Glendale, CA
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H 48 in W 69 in D 48 in
Trapezi Five Lights Neutral Shades Contemporary Pendant/Chandelier Brass, Glass
By Silvio Mondino Studio
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
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Brass
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H 24.01 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon
By Lemon
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Burl, Poplar
Keith Haring Andy Warhol 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol 1986: Rare, highly sought-after oversized 1986 folding announcement card / poster illustrated by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol (reverse side). This seldom avai...
Lithograph, Offset
$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
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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