Kaws

American · b. 1974 · Painter, Sculptor

Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, is an American artist and designer whose work centers on repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating… (Wikipedia)

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1,044lots offered2013–2026years recorded81%sold (815)$11.4kSign up free to seemedian price

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Record prices

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THE WALK HOMEPhillips · May 2019$5,955,000≈ £4,649,075≈ €5,315,540Sign up to see
UNTITLED (FATAL GROUP)Phillips · Nov 2018$2,716,500≈ £2,123,427≈ €2,402,919Sign up to see
GRRR!Phillips · Nov 2019$2,180,000≈ £1,697,687≈ €1,982,359Sign up to see

Kaws’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price

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median $11.4kfree account

High

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Lots sold

815

of 1,009 offered · 2013–2026

Sell-through

81%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 578 of 753 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

35 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

27 sold lot(s) are awaiting a USD exchange rate and are excluded from averages.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	202	179	89%	$354kSign up	$152kSign up	$6MSign up
Acrylic	189	168	89%	$369kSign up	$161kSign up	$6MSign up
Mixed media	10	9	90%	$34.3kSign up	$33kSign up	$62.5kSign up
Works on paper	25	21	84%	$54.5kSign up	$6.7kSign up	$711kSign up
Pastel	1	1	100%	$93.8kSign up	$93.8kSign up	$93.8kSign up
Drawing	11	10	91%	$4.4kSign up	$3.1kSign up	$12.1kSign up
Prints & multiples	564	460	82%	$21.1kSign up	$5.5kSign up	$241kSign up
Engraving	1	1	100%	$508Sign up	$508Sign up	$508Sign up
Lithograph	3	3	100%	$5.6kSign up	$5.3kSign up	$11.4kSign up
Screenprint	269	208	77%	$25.7kSign up	$10.3kSign up	$159kSign up
Print (other)	20	9	45%	$34.8kSign up	$953Sign up	$241kSign up
Multiple	271	239	88%	$16.8kSign up	$2.8kSign up	$192kSign up
Sculpture	83	63	76%	$187kSign up	$35.4kSign up	$2MSign up
Other	135	92	68%	$117kSign up	$3.3kSign up	$1.8MSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	96	83	$4kSign up
2025	121	83	$3kSign up
2024	104	73	$5.5kSign up
2023	65	52	$9.7kSign up
2022	83	60	$5.7kSign up
2021	109	82	$21kSign up
2020	145	111	$4.1kSign up
2019	114	107	$93.8kSign up
2018	67	64	$106kSign up
2017	45	44	$36.2kSign up
2016	35	31	$20.7kSign up
2015	5	5	$38kSign up
2014	13	13	$56.3kSign up
2013	7	7	$40kSign up