URGE

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KAWS (B.1974)
URGE
the complete set of ten screenprints in colors, on Saunders Waterford paper, 2020, each signed and dated in pencil and numbered 112/250 (there were also 50 artist's proof sets), published by the artist, New York, each with full margins, in very good condition, with the title page and blue clamshell portfolio case
Each Image: 11 ¼ x 8 5/8 in. (286 x 220 mm.)
Each Sheet: 17 x 12 ¾ in. (432 x 324 mm.)
(10)

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Lot Essay

"In March 2020, my wife and I had Covid-19. I was in bed for three weeks. There was all this uncertainty and news about not touching your face, not touching anything. I started doing drawings of CHUM with hands all over his face - touching and contaminating. It's meant to be humorous but at the same time, it's very stressful. As soon as I got out [of isolation], I turned the drawings into a series of 10 paintings, which is hung as a grid in the exhibition." -KAWS quoted in Vogue discussing the paintings that inspired this set of prints.

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