Product Description
The KAWS Bearbrick Dissected 400% Brown is one of the most significant and most collectible objects at the intersection of contemporary fine art and designer toy culture, a limited edition of 500 vinyl figures produced by Medicom Toy in 2010 that represents one of KAWS's most enduring and most conceptually loaded contributions to the Bearbrick format. Brian Donnelly, known as KAWS, had by 2010 already established himself as one of the most influential artists working at the boundary between street art, commercial imagery, and fine art institutions, and his Dissected Companion series applied to the Bearbrick silhouette the formal idea he had been developing across paintings, sculptures, and standalone figures: the exposure of the interior anatomy beneath the cartoon exterior, the XX eyes closed or absent suggesting a figure simultaneously alive and dissected, present and departed. The brown colorway applies the Dissected anatomy treatment, including exposed musculature, internal organ graphics, and the characteristic brain, eye, and X face elements, against a warm brown base that makes this the most earthily toned and most quietly compelling of the Dissected 400% colorways released alongside the black and grey editions in the same 2010 drop. Standing 11 inches tall at 400%, the figure features moveable arms and legs and the precise character fidelity that made KAWS's Medicom Toy collaborations some of the most sought-after pieces in the designer toy world from their first release. The brown edition was produced in an edition of 500 and documented in the Rizzoli publication KAWS: 1993-2010, confirming its position within the artist's formal bibliography. Secondary market prices have increased substantially since the 2010 retail price, reflecting the figure's status as a pivotal piece in serious contemporary collecting.
The KAWS Bearbrick Dissected 400% Brown is among the most important and most culturally weighted pieces in the entire 2010 KAWS output, a collectible that belongs simultaneously in the artist's fine art catalog, the Medicom Toy collector archive, and the broader history of objects that collapsed the distance between commercial production and contemporary art.
The KAWS Bearbrick Dissected 400% Brown was released on June 1, 2010 with a retail price of $350.
