BORN TO BEND

Details

KAWS (B. 1974)
BORN TO BEND
signed, numbered and dated 'KAWS..13 4/10' (on the underside)
painted bronze, painted steel base
16 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 6 in. (41.9 x 27.3 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 2013. This work is number four from an edition of ten plus two artist's proofs.

Provenance

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, KAWS @ PAFA, October 2013 - January 2014 (another example exhibited).

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

“KAWS is not just referring to pop culture, he is making it.”
–Michael Auping, ‘America’s Cartoon Mind’, in KAWS: Where the End Starts, exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 2017, p. 63.

BORN TO BEND

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