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Clean Slate, 2014

                First unveiled in Hong Kong in 2014 as one of KAWS' largest public sculptures, 
                
                Clean Slate refers to wiping out the past and starting over again, stepping into the next stage of life. 
                
                It features the popular COMPANION character on his feet, carrying two smaller COMPANIONS in his arms, embodying the new chapter in life.

                After being exhibited at Phillips Plaza in New York, it was sold by the auction house on November 15th, 2018 during their 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale for $1,650,000, much more than its high estimate.
            

The Walk Home, 2012

            A quintessential example of the artist’s ability to communicate complex human emotion through reclaimed cartoon imagery, 
            
            The Walk Home depicts the ever‐popular animated character, SpongeBob SquarePants, rendered in an almost rubber-like matte finish.
            
            The character's eyes are obliterated with his signature X-motifs. 
            
            SpongeBob is surrounded by a dozen pairs of disembodied arms, echoing the protagonist’s own raised limbs. 
            
            This emphasizes the magnitude of emotion captured in a single moment.


            The piece was sold on May 16th, 2016 at Phillips New York during their 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale for staggering $5,000,000.
        

The Kaws Album, 2005

            Created in 2005, The Kaws Album is an appropriation of appropriation, KAWS's take on The Simpsons's The Yellow Album, which is a riff on the cover art for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. 
            
            It features a whole cast of the artist's Kimpsons characters with their signature sprouting puffy crossbones and X’ed eyes. 
            
            Kimspons are accompanied by KAWS's popular COMPANION, seated on the left of the composition. 
            
            One of the most accomplished works on canvas the artist ever created, it epitomizes his entire artistic and cultural lexicon.


            The piece was sold on April 1st at Sotheby's Hong Kong during their NIGOLDENEYE® Vol. 1 sale for a staggering $14.7 million, 
            setting a new auction record for the artist. The piece soared past its estimate of $760,000–$1 million to a spectacular finish.