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Created during the breakout years of KAWS’s swift rise to fame, SMALL KM LANDSCAPE, 2001 is a seminal work marking an important transition in the artist’s career. As his first series made exclusively on canvas, KAWS’s landscape paintings represent a significant step from his beginnings as a graffiti artist towards his integration into the commercial art world. This year also marks KAW’s first solo exhibition in Tokyo, where he debuted his trademarked KIMPSONS characters like those featured in the present lot. Since this moment in the early 2000s, KAWS has continually challenged established distinctions between “high” and “low” art, taking inspiration from both art history and popular culture.
Synonymous with the middle-class American lifestyle, The Simpsons explores the lives of a relatively mediocre family mischievously navigating through suburban life. Acknowledging the universal infatuation with these less than inspirational figures, KAWS pointedly noted, “I found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to, like, regular politics.”[i] Decidedly honing in on this established, consumer-friendly subject matter, KAWS integrated his anarchic renderings of inflated crossbones and X-eyes on his appropriations of these beloved characters, renaming them THE KIMPSONS and making them distinctly his own.
Vincent Van Gough, A Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889. The National Gallery, London.
In SMALL KM LANDSCAPE, KAWS disrupts the visual understanding of his subject using both abstraction and dramatic re-contextualization. The only painting from the five works that make up this series to feature multiple Simpsons characters in a single composition, the present work utilizes careful circumscription to illustrate only the tops of Krusty the Clown and Marge’s heads, resulting in an animated landscape that recalls the naturalistic elements of traditional landscape painting, such as those found in Vincent van Gogh’s A Wheat Field with Cypresses. Despite seeing a condensed cropping of the composition in an unlikely context, the viewer instantly recognizes Marge’s iconic blue up-do and Krusty the Clown’s sparse eccentric locks. The puffed crossbones that protrude from Krusty’s head, signature to KAWS’s now ubiquitous visual lexicon, further the painting’s unanimous resonance. Doubling as mountaintops, bushes and trees and painted with sophisticated precision, this work functions as a hybrid between mass-marketed pop-culture and the realistic documentation of our natural surroundings, demonstrating the extent to which fabricated cartoons have been integrated into the daily life of modern society.
As SMALL KM LANDSCAPE exudes wit and controversy – simultaneously paying homage to and mocking the established, formal components of art history – it is supremely representative of KAWS’s original mission to create universal content that encourages all to interact with and relate to his work.
[i] KAWS, quoted in Monica Ramirez-Montagut, KAWS 1993-2010, New York, 2010, p. 126.
Provenance
Gering & López Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present ownerLiterature
Monica Ramirez-Montagut, KAWS 1993-2010, New York, 2010, p. 15 (illustrated)
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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SMALL KM LANDSCAPE
signed, titled and dated "KAWS..2001 SMALL KM LANDSCAPE" on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Painted in 2001.
Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000
Sold for $250,000
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York
1 212 940 1250
20th c. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York Auction 2 July 2020
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Clothes Shopping
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Matthew Wong
Landscape with Young Bather
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Nina Chanel Abney
Mr. Baker
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Amoako Boafo
After the nail color
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Lucas Arruda
Untitled from the series Deserto-Modelo
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Vivian Springford
Untitled (Tanzania Series)
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Ann Craven
Orange Dream, Pink Bird on Pink and Orange Fade, 2006
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Nicolas Party
Landscape
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Genieve Figgis
Sunday ladies
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Shara Hughes
Home Theater
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Brian Calvin
Noon
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Jeff Sonhouse
Study for Secretary of State
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Noah Davis
100 Years of Entertainment 1-5
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Nicole Eisenman
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Robert Colescott
The Monkey Wrench
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Rose Wylie
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Michael Ray Charles
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Harold Ancart
Untitled
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Walter Price
Aset! Go Tell it on the Mountain
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Toyin Ojih Odutola
This is Not An Invitation
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Tomoo Gokita
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Eddie Martinez
You Know Who You Are
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Josh Smith
Untitled
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224
KAWS
SMALL KM LANDSCAPE
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Petra Cortright
marathon training programs map + 50 grey states
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Yue Minjun
Two works: Contemporary Terracotta Warriors No. 5
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Takashi Murakami
Flower of Joy - Wintermint
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Ai Weiwei
Dress with Flowers
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Grayson Perry
Between Kitsch and Shit
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Damien Hirst
Beautiful, Flaming Lips Day, Form of a Shell Painting
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Tracey Emin
I could have loved my innocence
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Sarah Morris
The Kodak Theatre [Los Angeles]
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Gilbert & George
Banker
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Paulina Olowska
Klaun
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Günther Förg
Untitled
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Mel Bochner
Blah, Blah, Blah
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Peter Dreher
Two works: (i) Seascape #1; (ii) Seascape #4
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George Condo
The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the series Jazz Paintings
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Paul McCarthy
Dick Eye
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SP188
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Seth Price
Sexy Dancer
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Christian Marclay
Untitled from the series Imaginary Records
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Tom Sachs
Model Three (Model 3 White Boombox)
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Richard Prince
Untitled (original)
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Matt Mullican
Two works: (i) Untitled (Diderot, Lettres Capitales); (ii) Untitled (Diderot, Alphabets des Lettres Bâtardes)
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Check Painting)
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248
John Baldessari
Double Bill (Part 2): …and Ernst
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249
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #97
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Ana Mendieta
El laberinto de la vida (The Labyrinth of Life) from the series Labyrinth of Venus
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled #155
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252
Mike Kelley
Nostalgic Depiction of the Innocence of Childhood
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253
Mike Kelley
The Start of the Slave Trade in the English Colonies from the series Reconstructed History
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Mike Kelley
Bedknobbed and Broom Struck
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled (Lucille Ball)
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Mike Kelley
Three Valleys
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257
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
The Maid from the series Equilibres
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258
Roni Horn
Piece (2)
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Anne Collier
Guilt
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260
Hank Willis Thomas and Sanford Biggers
Eshu at the Crossroad
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261
Carrie Mae Weems
Untitled from the series Sea Islands
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Rodney Graham
Oak, Mellaar from the series Flanders Trees
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Thomas Ruff
Nudes ry08
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Thomas Ruff
Nudes pant11
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Günther Förg
Aller Retour
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Jim Shaw
Study for A Taste of Honey (Portrait of Bob Flanagan)
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268
Robert Longo
Untitled (After Delacroix, A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother, 1830)
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Peter Halley
Untitled (6/24/99.2)
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Kehinde Wiley
Check II
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Lorna Simpson
Gold Head W
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Lorna Simpson
Gold Head Q
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273
Oscar Murillo
Untitled
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274
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu
Untitled (The days of this society is numbered)
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275
Chéri Samba
Nelson Mandela
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276
Fred Wilson
Drip Droop
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277
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari
Untitled
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278
Barry McGee
Untitled
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279
Ida Ekblad
Kons
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280
André Butzer
Untitled
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281
Friedrich Kunath
Finis
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282
Franz Ackermann
evasion XVIII (a building with one window lifted)
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283
Heimo Zobernig
Untitled (HZ2014-028)
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284
Heimo Zobernig
Untitled (HZ2013-109)
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285
Shinique Smith
Monochrome
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286
Elliott Hundley
Untitled
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Keltie Ferris
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288
Camille Henrot
Sans Titre from the series Desktop
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289
Claudia Comte
White Russian
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290
Sadie Benning
Untitled telephone drawing
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291
Katherine Bernhardt
5 Cigarettes on Black
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292
Will Boone
Death Wish
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293
Korakrit Arunanondchai
My trip to the White Temple 10
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294
Tomoo Gokita
Sitcom
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295
Mike Bouchet
Dark Up
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Ethan Cook
Untitled (Begin in one corner)
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Harold Ancart
Perfect Idea (1) (After You Have No Idea)
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298
Angel Otero
Untitled (SK-GQ)
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299
Sterling Ruby
The Martyr
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300
Bosco Sodi
Untitled
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301
Juan Muñoz
Three Figure Balcony
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302
Ernesto Neto
Anatomia Do Aconchego - Casa Nave
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303
Subodh Gupta
Untitled
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304
Dan Colen
Oy Vey (3)
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305
Dan Colen
I'm Gonna Be Sick
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306
RETNA
Yo Soy La Corazone Del la Linea Blanca
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307
Harmony Korine
Pajama Reststops
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Fredrik Værslev
Untitled (Terrazzo Painting)
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309
Josh Smith
Untitled
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Josh Smith
Untitled
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Mauro Perucchetti
Luxury Therapy
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