The walls are now painted purple at Phillips De Pury, an inspiring color for the forthcoming Saturday @ Phillips auction. The idea of kids watching Saturday morning cartoons bounced around as I entered the toy room where two of Kaws‘ vinyls are the centerpiece. The brown dissected companion took a main page of what will be a coveted catalogue in years to come. As the auction approaches, collectors worldwide will be focusing in on his work specifically as this is the first introduction of his vinyls to the auction world. There are many other interesting pieces, as well. A nice Barry McGee liquor bottle sits just to the right of Kaws, a set of Jeff Koons’ Supreme Monkey Train Skate decks around another corner, and many, many Murakami’s. Saturday @ Phillips is for the younger collectors, but maybe the older ones have started to realize that we have all come to play and they need to catch up. All is fun on a Saturday morning.

After the jump some more highlights.

Kaws’ Companions

Barry McGee

Jeff Koons x Supreme, Monkey Train decks

A wall of Murakami

Three Keith Haring lithographs

Yoshimoto Nara & David Shrigley combined. Marcel Dzama on the right,

Yoshimoto Nara

John Baldessari

A couple Damien Hirst prints

Kara Walker

Basquiat