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Warm Regards Bar (Strawberry)
Work Summary & Collector Notes
Warm Regards Bar (Strawberry) is a KAWS object riffing on his Warm Regards imagery, presented in a strawberry colorway. Drawing on KAWS's flat, graphic visual language and his fondness for re-coding everyday consumer forms, the piece converts a familiar, candy-bar-like or product-style object into a collectible carrying his signature aesthetic. The strawberry palette gives it a sweet, pop sensibility consistent with KAWS's playful engagement with advertising and commercial packaging. Like much of his product-oriented output, it blurs the boundary between branded merchandise and art object, offering an accessible, design-forward entry into the KAWS universe.
Collector notes: Edition label was not stated, and total quantity was not documented in the saved record. Edition-specific signature, numbering, and stamp details were not stated in the saved release record. Verify signing and numbering against a documented example of this edition.
Why It Matters
Throughout his career KAWS has treated consumer packaging, advertising, and product forms as legitimate artistic material, a sensibility rooted in his graffiti-era practice of altering bus-shelter and phone-booth ads. Objects in the Warm Regards family extend this interest, taking the look and feel of commercial goods and re-presenting them as desirable collectibles. The significance lies in how seamlessly KAWS moves between fine art and product culture, generating items that function simultaneously as merchandise and as art-world signifiers. For collectors, pieces like the Warm Regards Bar represent the more playful, consumer-facing edge of his practice — affordable, design-driven, and tied to his ongoing commentary on branding and consumption. While the specific production details of this strawberry version are not verified here, the work participates in KAWS's broader strategy of saturating everyday object categories with his iconography, reinforcing his status as an artist who erased the line between gallery and store.
Collector Perspective
This appeals to collectors who enjoy KAWS's product-and-object side and want an accessible, design-forward piece with strong color appeal. The strawberry colorway makes it a cheerful, display-friendly item suited to shelves and curated collectible groupings. It tends to attract entry-level buyers, completists, and fans of KAWS's consumer-culture commentary rather than those focused on his major Companion sculptures. Within a broader KAWS collection it adds breadth, representing the lighter, merchandise-adjacent dimension of his output and pairing well with the related Warm Regards first edition.
Historical Context
The Warm Regards imagery and its object variants belong to KAWS's consumer-facing, product-oriented practice, which grew out of his graffiti roots and his early fascination with advertising. As his career expanded from street interventions into toys, prints, and designed goods, KAWS continued producing objects that mimic or reference commercial packaging. This bar sits within that merchandise-and-object lineage rather than his monumental or fine-art painting arc, illustrating the consumerism-and-advertising thread that has run through his work since the 1990s.
Documented Release Details
- Object type
- Editioned print or object
- Release date
- 2008
- Release-date note
- Catalog-listed release year from the saved secondary record; primary release-page confirmation remains pending.
- Series
- Plush and Object
- Medium and materials
- Medium and materials were not documented in the saved record.
- Edition details
- Edition label was not stated, and total quantity was not documented in the saved record.
- Signature and marks
- Edition-specific signature, numbering, and stamp details were not stated in the saved release record. Verify signing and numbering against a documented example of this edition.
Documented History and Meaning
History note: This page treats KAWS's broader career as background context, not proof that this specific edition belongs to any single exhibition or event. Release-level facts here come from a saved secondary catalog record.
Meaning / interpretation: No per-work artist statement is recorded for this edition. Any thematic reading should be treated as interpretation of the imagery, not a documented statement of the artist's intent. This interpretive note follows the cited artist or publisher context.
Release context: The saved catalog lists 2008. It is grouped under Plush and Object in the saved record.
Authentication, Presentation and Provenance
- Original presentation
- Original packaging or presentation was not documented in the release sources reviewed.
- Authentication note
- Compare the support, dimensions, edition number, and signature against a documented example of this edition. Gauntlet Gallery does not authenticate works purchased from third parties.
- Provenance note
- Edition origin is attributed in the saved record to the release source named in the saved record. That does not establish the ownership history of an individual copy: retain the original invoice, reseller or gallery paperwork, labels, correspondence, and condition photographs.
Sources and Verification
Verification status: Secondary catalog snapshot; artist-level context added
- KAWSONE — official site — KAWS studio · primary artist source · Accessed 2026-07-13 · Official artist site; career context, not an individual-edition record.
- KAWS — Wikipedia · reference encyclopedia · Accessed 2026-07-13 · General artist-level biographical and career reference.
- KAWS (Q3194367) — Wikidata · reference knowledge base · Accessed 2026-07-13 · Structured identifier used for the artist across catalog metadata.
Market Context
- Estimated value. The median of recorded public sale prices for this piece, matched by title and colorway. We use the median (not the average) because it resists outliers.
- Min / max sale. The lowest and highest individual recorded sale prices; the range shows dispersion, not a guaranteed band.
- Recorded comps. The number of independent comparable sales; reliability rises with sample size (1–2 sales are indicative only).
- Liquidity & sales volume. Our liquidity rating reflects sales velocity — the number of recorded comparable sales and how recent the latest sale is. More frequent and more recent sales rate as more liquid (Highly Liquid → Liquid → Moderate → Thin → Very Thin); a piece with no recorded public sales is Extremely Rare.
- Product-level estimate. This colorway has few or no recorded sales of its own, so the figure is pooled from sales across all colorways of the same product (median, with the 25th–75th percentile as the range). Indicative; specific colorways can trade above or below.
- Estimate confidence. A traffic-light read on how well the data supports the estimate: green high, yellow medium, red low / indicative.
- Data source & currency. Compiled from recorded public marketplace and auction sales of US$200 or more, in US dollars, as of the latest recorded sale shown. Coverage is not exhaustive.
- Not financial or investment advice. For collector reference only — not an appraisal, offer, or guarantee of resale value. Art is volatile and illiquid; do your own research. Use is subject to our Terms & Conditions.
FAQ
What is the Warm Regards Bar?
It is a KAWS object drawing on his Warm Regards imagery, styled like a consumer product and offered in a strawberry colorway as a collectible art object.
How does it relate to the Warm Regards first edition?
It shares the Warm Regards imagery and title with the first edition, representing a colorway variant within that family of works.
Are the production specifics confirmed?
Edition size, release date, and exact materials are not verified here and should be checked against authoritative sources before purchase.
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