Details
KAWS (b.1974)
SMALL LIE
wood
92 ½ x 37 5/8 x 43 1/8 in. (235 x 95 x 110 cm.)
Executed in 2013. This work is from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs.
Provenance
Ross + Kramer Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Lot Essay

“SMALL LIE adopts the position of a child caught out telling a fib, knowing it has done wrong, with head down in embarrassment and knees knocked in a protective, humbled, position. The material of its making and long nose deliberately evoke the fairytale of Pinocchio, told to a children as a thinly veiled warning about the consequences of lying.”
- (H. Pheby, ‘Making His Mark’, KAWS Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2016, p. 15)

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