KAWS Accomplice Vinyl Figure Black

The KAWS Accomplice Vinyl Figure in Black is a collectible vinyl toy from Brian Donnelly — the artist known professionally as KAWS — featuring the Accomplice character, a rabbit-like companion figure introduced by KAWS in the early 2000s alongside the Companion as part of the expanding cast of characters that would come to define the artist's commercial collectible and fine art practice across the following two decades. The Accomplice is distinguished from KAWS' Companion character by its rabbit ears and similarly X-eyed, rounded form, applying the same cartoon-derived aesthetic vocabulary of crossed eyes, exaggerated hands, and simplified skull-like features that KAWS developed from his graffiti and advertising disruption work in the 1990s to a second character type that has become one of the most recognizable secondary figures in the KAWS universe. The Black colorway is the most archetypal and most broadly collected expression of the Accomplice vinyl figure, with the all-black finish creating the most sculptural and most silhouette-focused reading of the figure's form where the character's proportions and three-dimensional design are the primary collector interest rather than color variation. At $100 retail the Black Accomplice Vinyl Figure was released January 1, 2002 through KAWS' original vinyl toy distribution channels, representing one of the foundational collectible pieces in KAWS' history as both a commercial toy release and a fine art object. Released January 1, 2002 at $100 retail. The KAWS Accomplice Vinyl Figure Black was released on January 1, 2002 with a retail price of $100.