KAWS 2016 Exhibition Poster A, Companion with Face in Hands, A1 Offset Print, Unframed
KAWS 2016 Exhibition Poster A, Companion with Face in Hands, A1 Offset Print, Unframed
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A Giant Who Cannot Look
The Companion, usually a cartoon swagger, covers its eyes here like a child overwhelmed. Set among winter trees, the image carries the tender, melancholy side of KAWS's monumental sculpture.
Best for: KAWS collectors and anyone wanting a large, moody image of the Companion for a hallway or studio
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Described as new, opened once to check the contents and kept flat. Not yet examined in hand.
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A dark KAWS Companion stands among bare winter trees with its face buried in its hands: exhibition poster A from 2016, an A1 offset print kept flat and unframed since purchase.
The Piece
KAWS, the name of the New York artist Brian Donnelly, built his Companion from the grammar of cartoons and street art: crossed-out eyes, rounded ears, big gloved hands. In his monumental sculptures the figure grows to many metres tall and shifts from comic to tender, often shown hiding its face or slumped in thought, an everyman caught in a private moment.
Here the photograph catches a towering dark Companion in a wooded park, hands pressed over its eyes, the grey sky and bare branches deepening the mood. The KAWS name runs large at upper left above a round YSP mark and a line of small type with the exhibition dates and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park name. The description says the sheet was bought at a sculpture museum in the United Kingdom, which fits the KAWS exhibition held there in 2016.
The poster is unsigned and not editioned, as the description states. It is described as new, opened once to check the contents, and kept flat as a sheet without ever being framed.
Details
- Artist: KAWS
- Title: Exhibition poster A
- Year: 2016
- Medium: Offset print
- Edition: None
- Signature: Unsigned
- Sheet: A1, 84 x 59.4 cm (33.1 x 23.4 in)
- Frame: Unframed
- Condition: New, opened once
Condition
- Described as new, opened once to check the contents.
- Kept flat as a sheet since purchase, never framed.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Details are given as the description states them. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing on an acid-free mount, away from direct sunlight and damp.
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The sheet travels flat between rigid boards, never rolled. At this size we compare EMS, FedEx and air cargo, so the shipping cost is quoted and agreed with you before purchase, insured and tracked. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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