KAWS GONE Black Companion (black KAWS gone)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Black), new & unopened in its original packaging.
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KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS Gone companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE: Set of 2 (Grey & Brown), new & unopened in their original packaging.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
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KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS gone companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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KAWS GONE complete set of 3 (KAWS gone companions)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE: Complete set of 3 figures: new & unopened in their original packaging.
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KAWS Brown GONE (KAWS GONE brown & blue)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWSKAWS Gone Brown Figure, Pop Art Vinyl & Resin, 14in, Unsigned, 2010+, 2019
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By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
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KAWSKAWS Gone Black Figure, Pop Art Vinyl & Resin, 14in, Unsigned, 2010+, 2019
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Located in Dallas, TX
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KAWS Gone Grey Figure, Pop Art Vinyl & Resin, Unsigned, 14in, 2010+
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By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
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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).
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Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE KAWS BFF Companions (KAWS companion set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Black & KAWS Black BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019): Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast Resin (applies to each work).
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art More Art
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Resin, Vinyl
KAWS, Gone - Screenprint incl. Limited Edition Catalogue, Signed Print
By KAWS
Located in Hamburg, DE
KAWS (American, b. 1974) Gone, 2019 Medium: Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle 300gsm (incl. limited edition catalogue for the exhibition of KAWS: Companionship in the Ages of Lonelines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art More Art
Materials
Screen
KAWS Gone, 2019, Limited Edition Print and Limited Edition Exhibition Book
By KAWS
Located in Draper, UT
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2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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Gone, Companionship in the Age of Loneliness, 2019
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
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KAWS GONE Companion (black KAWS gone)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures
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Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS gone companion)
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KAWS GONE: Set of 2 new & unopened in original packaging.
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KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS companion)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE: Set of 2 (Grey & Brown), new & unopened in their original packaging.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE: set of 2 (Black & Brown), new & unopened in original packaging.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures
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KAWS GONE Black Companion (black KAWS gone)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Black), new & unopened in its original packaging.
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Prints and Multiples
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Resin, Vinyl
KAWS - Gone - Brown Version - collectible PopArt
By KAWS
Located in Dallas, TX
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Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE Grey (KAWS grey pink gone companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE Grey (KAWS grey pink gone companion)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Grey (KAWS GONE Grey & Pink), new & unopened in its original packaging.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS Brown GONE (KAWS GONE brown & blue)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging.
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KAWS GONE Brown (KAWS brown & blue gone)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE Grey (KAWS grey & pink gone companion)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE (Grey), new & unopened in its original packaging.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
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Resin, Vinyl
KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS companion)
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Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE: Set of 2 (Grey & Brown), new & unopened in their original packaging.
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
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KAWS GONE set of 2 (KAWS companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Category
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KAWS GONE Grey (KAWS grey & pink gone companion)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS Grey GONE, new & unopened in its original packaging (KAWS Grey & Pink GONE).
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures
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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 (applies to each work).
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures
Materials
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GONE
By KAWS
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle 300gsm paper. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Sheet size 15 x 12 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx 21 x 18 inches...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Prints
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Paper, Screen
Gone (Black)
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Painted Cast Vinyl Open edition Stamped on the underside of feet Mint, as issued. Some minor imperfections may exist given the nature of the material
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl, Plastic
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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.
Learn how to spot a fake KAWS art toy, and browse authentic KAWS figures, prints, sculptures and mixed media works on 1stDibs.
Questions About KAWS
- 1stDibs ExpertAugust 29, 2024To tell if a KAWS Companion is real, assess its overall quality. All authentic KAWS figures will feel solid and dense. If it’s hollow, it’s likely not a KAWS. And be skeptical of any product marked “factory error.” KAWS spends a great deal of time perfecting every limited-edition design and would never release a less-than-flawless creation. Smudged, deformed or misaligned details are highly unlikely on an authentic KAWS; it’s more probable that “factory error” and “sample” are simply more appealing terms for “unauthorized copy.” Also, look for the product’s correct year of creation and © KAWS stamped on the bottom of the doll. Some models should have the series name or toy manufacturer on them as well. Knowing the characteristics of the particular figure you're purchasing can also help you determine if the toy is authentic. When in doubt, enlist the help of a knowledgeable expert, such as a certified appraiser or experienced art dealer. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of KAWS art.
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1 AnswerIrena Orlov ArtMarch 1, 2021Kaws' Companion is a clown-like figure based on a Mickey Mouse with X-ed out eyes.
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