URGE
The complete set of ten screen-prints in colors
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Saunders Waterford High White paper
Year: 2020
Sheet: 17×13 inches (43.2 x 32.4 cm)
Image: 11.4 x 8.6 inches (28.8 x 22.1 cm)
Edition: 250
Artist’s Proofs: 50 AP
Publisher: Kawsone, Brooklyn
Each signed, dated, and numbered in pencil
“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.”
URGE – PLATE #1
URGE – PLATE #2
URGE – PLATE #3
URGE – PLATE #4
URGE – PLATE #5
URGE – PLATE #6
URGE – PLATE #7
URGE – PLATE #8
URGE – PLATE #9
URGE – PLATE #10
Single Plates
SBI Art Auction: 23 May 2025
Estimated: JPY 400,000 – 700,000
JPY 506,000 / USD 3,550
KAWS
URGE, 2020
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 8 January 2025
Estimated: USD 2,000 – 4,000
USD 2,500
KAWS (b. 1974)
Urge No. 3, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Signed, dated, and numbered AP 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’ proof aside from the edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 8 January 2025
Estimated: USD 2,000 – 4,000
USD 5,750
KAWS (b. 1974)
Urge No. 9, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Signed, dated, and numbered AP 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’ proof aside from the edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 8 January 2025
Estimated: USD 2,000 – 4,000
USD 2,500
KAWS (b. 1974)
Urge No. 4, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Signed, dated, and numbered 9/250 in pencil along lower edge
Wright: 18 December 2024
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,032
KAWS
Untitled (from the Urge portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘126/250 KAWS 20’
SBI Art Auction: 13 September 2024
Estimated: JPY 400,000 – 700,000
JPY 506,000 / USD 3,575
KAWS
URGE, 2020
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 250
SBI Art Auction: 13 September 2024
Estimated: JPY 400,000 – 700,000
JPY 839,500 / USD 5,930
KAWS
URGE, 2020
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 250
LA Modern: 28 August 2024
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,032
KAWS (b.1974)
Untitled (from the Urge portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed and dated to lower edge ‘126/250 KAWS 20’
Wright Chicago: 14 August 2024
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,032
KAWS (Brian Donnelly) (b.1974)
Untitled (from the Urge portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed and dated to lower edge ‘126/250 KAWS 20’
Heritage Auctions: 7 August 2024
USD 3,125
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
Heritage Auctions: 7 August 2024
USD 3,500
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
Heritage Auctions: 23 July 2024
USD 3,375
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’s proof aside from edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 23 July 2024
USD 3,750
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’s proof aside from edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 10 July 2024
USD 3,125
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’s proof aside from edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 10 July 2024
USD 3,125
KAWS (b. 1974)
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated, and numbered A.P. 37/50 in pencil along lower edge
An artist’s proof aside from edition of 250
Heritage Auctions: 30 November 2023
USD 3,750
KAWS
Untitled, from Urge, 2020
Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford HP Hi-White paper
Signed, dated and numbered 83/250 in pencil along lower edge
Rago Auctions: 12 October 2023
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,788
KAWS (b.1974)
Untitled (from the Urge portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘AP 43/50 KAWS 20’
LA Modern: 28 September 2023
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,788
KAWS
Untitled (from the Urge Portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ’11/250 KAWS 20′
LA Modern: 28 September 2023
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 6,000
USD 4,032
KAWS
Untitled (from the Urge Portfolio), 2020
Screenprint in colors
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge ‘116/250 KAWS 20’
Complete Sets
Phillips New-York: 22 October 2025
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 20,640
Urge, 2020
The complete set of 10 screenprints in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Lacking the original portfolio and title page
(there were also 50 artist’s proofs)
Published by the artist, New York
SBI Art Auction: 9 March 2024
Estimated: JPY 4,000,000 – 7,000,000
JPY 4,830,000 / USD 32,670
KAWS
Urge (Complete set of 10), 2020
Screenprint, the complete set of 10 works with original case
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower part (each)
An artist’s proof aside from the edition of 250
Phillips London: 18 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 24,130 / USD 30,479
KAWS
URGE, 2020
The complete set of 10 screenprints in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
With the title page, all contained in the original blue fabric-covered clamshell portfolio box with embossed title
All signed, dated and numbered ‘AP 37/50’ in pencil
An artist’s proof set, the edition was 250
SBI Art Auction: 27 May 2023
Estimated: JPY 6,000,000 – 9,000,000
JPY 6,900,000 / USD 49,287
KAWS
URGE, 2020
The complete set of 10 screenprints with original case
Each signed, dated and numbered on the lower part from the edition of 250
Sotheby’s New-York: 19 July 2022
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 63,000
KAWS (b. 1974)
Urge, 2020
Each signed in pencil Kaws and dated 20 (lower right)
Each numbered 118/250 (lower left)
This set is number 118 from the edition of 250 plus 50 artist’s proof sets, with title page and blue cloth-covered portfolio case, published by the artist, New York.
Christie’s London: 28 September 2021
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 50,000
GBP 37,500
KAWS (B.1974)
Urge (portfolio), 2020
The complete set of ten screenprints in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Each signed and dated in pencil, each numbered 22/250
With the title page and blue clamshell portfolio case
Heritage Auctions: 22 April 2021
USD 50,625
KAWS
URGE, 2020
Ten screenprints in colors on Saunders Waterford paper
Each signed, numbered 194/250 and dated in pencil