KAWS
Brooklyn-based artist KAWS re-appropriates bits of popular culture and transforms them into eye catching iconic paintings. His cartoon-like characters, recognizable to the media savvy public, undergo a sardonic set of alterations. The present lot depicts the popular children’s cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants. KAWS explains, “I started doing SpongeBob paintings for Pharrell. Then I started doing smaller paintings, which got much more abstract. And SpongeBob was something I wanted to do because graphically I love the shapes.” (KAWS in conversation with Toby Maguire,
