KAWS Companion 2016 (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Companion 2016:Set of 2 works. Each new and sealed in its original packaging. Published by Medicom Japan in conjunction with the exhibition, KAWS: Where The End Starts at the Mo...
Resin, Vinyl
2019 "Along the Way" Brown Set of Two Vinyl KAWS Figures from Medicom Toy Corp.
By KAWS
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Set of two brown painted vinyl figures from KAWS' (a.k.a. Brian Donnelly's) 2019 open edition "Along the Way" release.
Vinyl
$1,788Sale Price|40% Off
KAWS X Be@rbrick Dissected 400% (Red)
By KAWS
Located in BRUCE, ACT
KAWS X Be@rbrick Dissected 400% (Red), 2008 Cast vinyl figure, from an edition of 500 Stamped to the underside of the left foot Published by OriginalFake Size 28 x 13 x 10 cm Come w...
Plastic, Vinyl
Wood Hand Sculpture by KAWS, Smooth Wood, Contemporary, 2010s
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
First published with More Gallery in Switzerland in as part of the 2013 'GISWIL' show, 'Wood Hand' is a rare, smooth wood sculpture created by the prolific street and contemporary ar...
Wood
KAWS Small Lie Companion (set of 3 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Small Lie Companion: Set of 2 works (brown and grey).
Resin, Vinyl
Man's Best Friend II Signed Silkscreen Print, KAWS, 2016, Framed
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
KAWS - Early Limited Edition Green Snake Skate Deck maplewood Skateboard 88/400
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
Krooked x KAWS Limited edition silkscreen on 100% Canadian 7-ply maplewood skate deck skateboard Signed on the deck on the verso with KAWS copyright and numbered 88/400 More than two...
Plywood, Screen
Pink Cover and White Cover Hypebeast Projection Issues featuring KAWS covers
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
Elevate your art publication collection with an extraordinary treasure that encapsulates the intersection of contemporary art and streetwear culture. A pair of sealed Hypebeast x KA...
Magazine Paper
KAWS Companion Flayed Edition & Companion Edition Vinyl Figure Blush Set Sealed
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
Yuz Museum, Shanghai proudly announces a major survey exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS (American, born 1974) on view at Yuz Museum, from March 28 to August 13, 20...
Vinyl
Man's Best Friend IV Screen Print by KAWS, Signed, 2016, Framed
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
Man's Best Friend III Screen Print by KAWS, Signed, Framed, 2016
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
Rare Carved Wood Kaws Hand Sculpture More Gallery Switzerland Wooden Toy Art
By KAWS
Located in Surfside, FL
Wood hand 2016 walnut 7 h × 4¼ w × 4 d in (18 × 11 × 10 cm) Engraved signature and inscription to underside Kaws: Giswil 12 June-26 August More Gallery This work is from an edition...
Wood
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: Hand-signed by artist, Hand Signed By The Artist in Black Sharpie, KAWS 2021... Fram...
Black and White
KAWS, 2016 hand signed offset lithograph poster from Yorkshire Sculpture Park UK
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS KAWS at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Hand Signed), 2016 Offset lithograph poster, uniquely signed and dated by KAWS 33 × 24 inches Signed and dated on the lower front Unframed Han...
Offset, Lithograph
Kaws Blush Set Flayed & Companion YUZ Museum China Decorative Figures Pop Urban
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
KAWS is a multi-faceted artist straddling the worlds of art and design in his prolific body of work that ranges from paintings, murals, and large-scale sculptures to product design a...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS, Alone Again, 2018, Screenprint in colours on wove paper, Edition of 100
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours on wove paper Edition 55 of 100 81.3 x 135.3 cm (32 x 53.2 in) Signed and numbered on the front Mint Published by Pace Prints
Screen
Small Lie (Brown), Limited Edition Companion in original packaging with hologram
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS Small Lie (Brown), Limited Edition Companion, 2017 Vinyl and Paint.
Resin, Vinyl
Five Years Later Companion (Brown) Vinyl Sculpture, Edition of 500
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Painted cast vinyl Edition of 500 (reported) Stamped 'MEDICOM TOY 2004 CHINA © KAWS..04' on the underside Pristine, some minor imperfections may exist given the nature of the materia...
Vinyl, Plastic
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak poster insert
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak album poster 2008. Offset lithograph; 12 x 24 inches. 1st edition 2008. Good overall condition with the exception of some minor signs of handling; con...
Offset
Man's Best Friend IX Silkscreen Print, Signed, 2016, Framed, 35x23 in
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
MBF: 'Man's Best Friend' VIII Silkscreen Print, Signed, 2016, Framed
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
MBF: 'Man's Best Friend' X Silkscreen Print, Signed, 2016, Framed
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
Man's Best Friend VII Silkscreen Print, Signed, Framed, 2016 Edition
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
Man's Best Friend VI Silkscreen Print, Signed, Framed, 2016 Edition
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
MBF: 'Man's Best Friend' V Silkscreen Print, Signed, 2016, Framed
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
Man's Best Friend I Screen Print, Signed, Limited Edition, 2016
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
In MBF, the beloved 'Snoopy' (KAWS playfully renamed him “Joe KAWS.”) and 'Charlie Brown' from the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz has been reimagined in sophisticated contem...
Screen
"The Last Supper in the Kuril Islands, Tea with KAWS"
By Valery Tatar
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This work was the second in a series of works "Secret Dinner in the Kuril Islands." It serves as a continuation after the work "In Search of Pokemon". After the sale of this picture,...
Canvas, Oil, Wood, Acrylic
$7,955Sale Price|20% Off
Girl with iMac, Skull and KAWS - original realist still life portraiture artwork
By Andrew S. Conklin
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...
Linen, Oil
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' signature character COMPANION in a resting position.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Clean Slate Set of 2 (KAWS brown & black clean slate companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Clean Slate: Set of 2 (Brown & Black), each new & unopened in original packaging.
Resin, Vinyl
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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From graffiti tagger to hypebeast obsession to auction hero — we chart the artist’s rise and his widening influence.