KAWS FAMILY set of 2 works (brown & black KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021 set of 2 (KAWS FAMILY brown & KAWS FAMILY black): A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set wa...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY complete set of 3 works (KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: complete set of 3 works: These well-received, highly collectible KAWS Companion sets were published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large scale Japanese museum exhib...
Resin, Vinyl
$2,200Sale Price|25% Off
H 13.39 in W 12.2 in D 5.71 in
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version - collectible Pop Art
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version New on its original packaging.
Resin, Vinyl
Kaws Set of 4 Ceramic Red Plates Exclusive Qatar Release
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
His current exhibition, KAWS: FAMILY, is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through May 2026 — his first major West Coast museum show — featuring over 100 works and a ...
Porcelain
Kaws Family 2021
By KAWS
Located in Singapore, SG
Artist name: KAWS Title: Kaws Family (Set of 5 pieces) Media: Vinyl Figure Year: 2021
Vinyl
Kaws Family Black 2021
By KAWS
Located in Singapore, SG
Artist name: KAWS Title: Kaws Family (Set of 5 pieces) Media: Vinyl Figure Year: 2021
Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (brown KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
Untitled (Brooklyn Museum Family Party Print)
By KAWS
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: KAWS Medium: Screenprint cutout Title: Untitled Signed: Signed and dated Portfolio: Brooklyn Museum Family Party Print Year: 2019 Edition: Unique Framed Size: 15 1/2" x 15 1/...
Screen
KAWS FAMILY (brown KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (black KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (black KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (grey KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (grey KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (grey KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS FAMILY (grey KAWS Family companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS FAMILY 2021: A well-received work and variation of KAWS' larger FAMILY sculpture - this highly collectible KAWS Companion set was published on the occasion of KAWS’ first large ...
Resin, Vinyl
Sold
H 13.39 in W 12.2 in D 5.71 in
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Brown version - collectible Pop Art
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Brown version New on its original packaging.
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS - Together - Black version - collectible Pop Art
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version New on its original packaging.
Resin, Vinyl
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vinyl 14 × 12 × 6 in 35.6 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm Sold in mint condition, in (sealed) original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Sold in mint condition, in original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vinyl 14 × 12 × 6 in 35.6 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm Sold in mint condition, in (sealed) original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vinyl 14 × 12 × 6 in 35.6 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm Sold in mint condition, in (sealed) original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vinyl 14 × 12 × 6 in 35.6 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm Sold in mint condition, in (sealed) original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Family
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Vinyl 14 × 12 × 6 in 35.6 × 30.5 × 15.2 cm Sold in mint condition, in (sealed) original publisher packaging as issued.
PVC
Kaws Family – Changbai Mountain (Set of 3)
By KAWS
Located in palma de mallorca, ES
KAWS, born Brian Donnelly, straddles the worlds of art and design with a prolific body of work that ranges from paintings, murals, and large-scale sculptures to merchandise, furnitur...
Plastic, PVC
$1,160Sale Price|20% Off
H 13.4 in W 6.3 in D 5.12 in
KAWS Take Figure Blue Version, Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2010-
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
Open unknown edition Unsigned Several months after releasing the KAWS Share Figure in February, the artist released his long anticipated KAWS Take Figure. The figure, which features...
Resin, Vinyl
$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
$3,850
H 14.25 in W 8 in
KAWS Holiday Companions: set of 6 works (KAWS brown companion 2019-2022)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Companion 2019-2022: A curated set of 6 individual Brown KAWS Companions new & unopened in original packaging. These KAWS holiday companions were born out of KAWS' world famous ...
Resin, Vinyl
Keith Haring Bearbrick 400% (Haring Be@rbrick)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%): A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Keith Haring. The partnered collectible reveals...
Resin, Vinyl
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
Futura 400% Bearbrick 2017 (Futura Be@rbrick)
By Futura
Located in NEW YORK, NY
FUTURA Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%), 2017: A rare & beautifully composed vinyl sculpture by the legendary New York graffiti-artist, Futura 2000. The partnered co...
Resin, Vinyl
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
KAWS Companion: set of 10 works (KAWS Brown Companion set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Companion 2016-2021: A sharply curated set of 10 distinguished individual Brown KAWS Companions new & unopened in original packaging. Dimensions as follows: KAWS Clean Slate, 2...
Resin, Vinyl
$2,080Sale Price|20% Off
H 14 in W 15 in D 4 in
KAWS Gone Brown Figure, Pop Art Vinyl & Resin, 14in, Unsigned, 2010+
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
KAWS Gone- Brown version New on its original packaging. Medium: Vinyl & Cast Resin Open unknown edition Unsigned
Resin, Vinyl
Signed Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy, 2018: A rare example of this coveted Hebru Brantley Flyboy - signed, dated and inscribed on the outer packaging. New in its original packaging. Medium: Painte...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS SHARE brown (KAWS brown companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS SHARE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging. KAWS SHARE first appeared in 'BLACKOUT' – the first London solo exhibition by KAWS (Skarstedt London 2019). In SHARE, K...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS HOLIDAY Changbai white (KAWS white changbai)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Holiday Changbai Mountain (KAWS white Changbai): A beautifully composed snowy-white KAWS COMPANION published to commemorate KAWS' larger-scale sculpture of same, at Changbai Mo...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS TIME OFF (KAWS Time Off companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS TIME OFF Black: A highly decorative KAWS Companion featuring KAWS’ much popularized BFF Companion in a resting position. This highly collectible KAWS Companion was published ahe...
Resin, Vinyl
$2,120Sale Price|25% Off
H 14.25 in W 7 in D 7 in
KAWS Clean Slate Black Vinyl Figure, Pop Art, 2010s, Unsigned, 14.25"
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
KAWS Clean Slate (Black), new & unopened in its original packaging. Sold Out after the artist's retrospect exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Medium: Vinyl & Cast R...
Resin, Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy & Drawing (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy, 2018: A rare example of this coveted Hebru Brantley Flyboy - inscribed with a drawing on the outer packaging. New in its original packaging. Medium: Painted c...
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS WHAT PARTY white (KAWS white what party)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS WHAT PARTY Companion: This KAWS Companion vinyl sculpture features KAWS' CHUM character in a hunched position. Published to commemorate the debut of KAWS’ larger scale sculptur...
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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