Introduction
After his graduation from the School of Visual Arts in New York, KAWS started his creative career working for Jumbo Pictures as an animator, painting backgrounds for Disney’s animated series. While thriving in this artistic environment, the artist chased creative liberty and the freedom to produce his own work. Like his predecessors Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, KAWS turned to his urban surroundings and filled the streets of New York City with his own graffiti in the 1990s. It was here that he developed his unique visual lexicon and formed the signature symbols for which he is so well-known today.
Reworking advertisements with over-painting and spray-painting and drawing from the nostalgia of cherished cartoon heroes and their universal cultural value, KAWS created his most well-known characters: Companion and Bendy, as well as his signature ‘XX’ trademark. In designing his own era-specific cartoons, KAWS magnifies and distorts animated portraits, stripping them of comforting familiarity. The result is entirely new entities infused with a witty contemporary discourse depicted in neon colors that demand attention.
“If you look at something but then you know what it is, is it still abstraction?
You just start looking at the gestures and how they work and thinking about the history of painting and how it can relate to that.”
In NO REPLY, the artist crops into his beloved characters’ features, showing only portions of their faces and hands. By including his X-shaped eyes in nine of the ten prints, KAWS ensures that even the most abstract designs are recognizable. While only segments of each character are visible, the vibrant colors and cropped compositions pulsate with energy and movement, as if the figures are attempting to escape their frames.
NO REPLY, 2015
NO REPLY
The complete set of 10 screenprints in colors
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford High White paper
Year: 2015
Sheet: 35×23 inches (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
Edition: 100
Artist’s Proofs: 20 AP
Publisher: Pace Editions, New-York
Each signed, dated and numbered in pencil
NO REPLY #1
NO REPLY #2
NO REPLY #3
NO REPLY #4
NO REPLY #5
NO REPLY #6
NO REPLY #7
NO REPLY #8
NO REPLY #9
NO REPLY #10
SINGLE PLATES
SBI Art Auction: 28 October 2022
Estimated: JPY 1,000,000 – 1,500,000
JPY 1,265,000 / USD 8,650
KAWS
Work (from No Reply), 2015
Screenprint with original case
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower part
From the edition of 100
SBI Art Auction: 28 October 2022
Estimated: JPY 1,000,000 – 1,500,000
JPY 1,207,500 / USD 8,255
KAWS
Work (from No Reply), 2015
Screenprint with original case
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower part
From the edition of 100
Phillips London: 14 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 3,000 – 5,000
GBP 4,032 / USD 4,640
KAWS
NO REPLY: ONE PLATE, 2015
Screenprint in colors
Signed, dated and numbered 25/100 in pencil (there were also 20 artist’s proofs)
COMPLETE SETS
SBI Art Auction: 23 May 2025
Estimated: JPY 4,000,000 – 7,000,000
JPY 5,060,000 / USD 35,490
COMPLETE SET
KAWS
No Reply (Complete set of 10), 2015
Screenprint, the complete set of 10 prints with original case
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower part (each)
From the edition of 100
Phillips New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 40,640
COMPLETE SET
KAWS
NO REPLY, 2015
The complete set of 10 screenprints in colors on Saunders Waterford High White paper
Accompanied by the original blue linen portfolio and title page
All signed, dated and numbered 26/100 in pencil
(there were also 20 artist’s proofs)
Phillips New-York: 27 June 2024
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
COMPLETE SET
PASSED
KAWS
NO REPLY, 2015
The complete set of 10 screen-prints in colors on Saunders Waterford High White paper
Accompanied by the blue linen portfolio and title page
All signed, dated and numbered 26/100 in pencil (there were also 20 artist’s proofs)
LA Modern: 10 April 2024
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 52,920
COMPLETE SET
KAWS (Brian Connelly) (b.1974)
No Reply, 2015
The complete set of ten screenprints in colors
Signed, dated and numbered to lower edge of each work ‘PP 5/5 KAWS 15’
This complete set of ten works is printer’s proof 5 of 5 apart from the edition of 100
Sold with framed portfolio case
Phillips London: 19 January 2023
Estimated: GBP 50,000 – 70,000
GBP 75,600 / USD 92,865
COMPLETE SET
KAWS
NO REPLY, 2015
The complete set of ten screenprints in colors on wove paper
With the original blue fabric-covered portfolio with embossed title
All signed, dated and numbered 51/100 in pencil
Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 10 October 2021
Estimated: HKD 500,000 – 700,000
HKD 819,000 / USD 105,005
COMPLETE SET
KAWS (b. 1974)
NO REPLY (A COMPLETE SET OF TEN PRINTS), 2015
Screenprint
Each signed, dated 15 and numbered 83/100
This work is number 83 from an edition of 100 and comes in the original portfolio case
Christie’s New-York: 15 April 2021
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 93,750
COMPLETE SET
KAWS (B.1974)
NO REPLY, 2015
The complete set of ten screen-prints in colors
Each signed, dated and numbered 52/100 in pencil (there were also twenty artist’s proof sets)
Phillips Hong-Kong: 25 May 2019
Estimated: HKD 500,000 – 700,000
HKD 937,500 / USD 119,440
COMPLETE SET
AUCTION RECORD FOR NO REPLY
KAWS
Ten Works: NO REPLY, 2015
Screenprint
Each signed, dated and numbered ’49/100 KAWS.. 15′ lower left and lower right respectively
These works are number 49 from an edition of 100
Accompanied by their original blue fabric-covered portfolio with embossed title