Provenance
Pace Prints, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
Entitled Man’s Best Friend, the present lot is a monumental set of 10 black and white screenprints which playfully depict Snoopy, an American Beagle and companion to Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts created by Charles Schulz. However, KAWS’ Snoopy has been playfully renamed by the artist, now known as “Joe KAWS.” From 1950 until his death in 2005, Schulz’s beloved characters appeared in international and national newspapers every day, deeply rooting themselves in generations of globally diverse viewers. KAWS explains, “I’m into Schulz as an artist, a company, and an icon; I got into his stuff just because I liked the looseness of the line work, and I thought that it was just sort of a nice thing to bring into my paintings, even if it’s abstract and unidentifiable” (KAWS in Steff Yotka, “Inside KAWS’s Studio With the Artist—And His Snoopy for Uniqlo Toys,” Vogue, April 27, 2017).

By extracting minimalist, detailed crops of Charlie Brown, KAWS has left just a hint of the persona being portrayed, yet even with just a dissociated portion the viewer is able to immediately recognize this iconic canine. As the artist comments, “[I] found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people's lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics” (KAWS in Healy & Murray, "Graffiti Artist Turned Gallery Artist Turned Art Toy Maker, KAWS," Pop, February 2007, pp. 260-265). KAWS’ simplistic yet bold images playfully and inventively rework quintessential cartoon imagery while touching on the viewer’s personal, childhood relationship to the ensemble of friendly cartoon faces.
Artist Biography
KAWS
American • 1974
To understand the work of KAWS is to understand his roots in the skateboard and graffiti crews of New York City. Brian Donnelly chose KAWS as his moniker to tag city streets beginning in the 1990s, and quickly became a celebrated standout in the scene. Having swapped spray paint for explorations in fine art spanning sculpture, painting and collage, KAWS has maintained a fascination with classic cartoons, including Garfield, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Simpsons, and reconfigured familiar subjects into a world of fantasy.
Perhaps he is most known for his larger-than-life fiberglass sculptures that supplant the body of Mickey Mouse onto KAWS' own imagined creatures, often with 'x'-ed out eyes or ultra-animated features. However, KAWS also works frequently in neon and vivid paint, adding animation and depth to contemporary paintings filled with approachable imagination. There is mass appeal to KAWS, who exhibits globally and most frequently in Asia, Europe and the United States.
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KAWS

Man's Best Friend

each signed, numbered and dated "75/100 KAWS 16" lower edge
The complete set of 10 screenprints in black and white, on Saunders Waterford High White paper, the full sheets, with title page, loose (as issued) contained in the original grey fabric-covered portfolio with printed title
each sheet 35 x 23 in. (89 x 58.5 cm.)
portfolio 36 3/4 x 24 5/8 in. (93.3 x 62.5 cm.)
Executed in 2016, this work is number 75 from an edition of 100 plus 20 artist's proofs, published by Pace Prints, New York.

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$40,000 - 60,000

Sold for $87,500

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KAWS
Man's Best Friend
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You'll Be Missed Too
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Zimmerer
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Body Medicated
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Untitled
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Keith Haring
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Portrait of the artist in her previous irrationally small east village apartment
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Dio
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Corner Detonation
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He Tell Me He Love Me
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Together and Ocean (mirror)
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Untitled (Use It or Lose It)
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Facing the Untouched #3
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Study for Subway (with hoodie)
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Houellebecq 2
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A Penny for Your Thoughts, Website, 2006 from Fade to Black
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Alba
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Spentcock Man
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When
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Los Angeles
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Untitled (Hat Guys)
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Roe Ethridge
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Collier Schorr
The rivalry between God and other gods
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Camera Club #1
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Vik Muniz
The Origin of the World, after Courbet (from Pictures of Soil)
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Eat Me
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At the Shore
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Baby
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Dana Schutz
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Elizabeth Peyton
Flaubert in Egypt (After Delacroix)
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Paul P.
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Nigel Cooke
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Ibrahim Mahama
Untitled
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Jacob Kassay
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Peter Sutherland
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Self Portrait 1, Self Portrait 2, Self Portrait 3, Self Portrait 4
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Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Rebecca
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Kent Henricksen
Three Loves
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Nate Lowman
NO!
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Austin Lee
Hold
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John Bankston
Little Man's Big Score
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Eric and Heather ChanSchatz
PTG.88 Effron
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Aaron Curry
Untitled (Compositional Mask)
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Dan Attoe
Justice
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Dan Attoe
Deranged Lunatic
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Cheyney Thompson
1998
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Sophie von Hellermann
Untitled
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Evan Gruzis
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José Rosabal
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Salvador Corratgé
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Pedro de Oraá
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Manuel Mendive
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Pedro Pablo Oliva
Los paseos de Juanita
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José Antonio Hernández-Díez
MP3 vol.3
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Julián Trigo
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Teresita Fernández
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Jorge Macchi
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Pedro Reyes
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William Wegman
Untitled from Improved Photographs
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Jeff Koons
Puppy (Vase)
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Jeff Koons
GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammed Ali (Champ's Edition)
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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Respiro
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