Armed Away (2014), which debuted at Los Angeles’s Honor Fraser Gallery in an exhibition titled “MAN’S BEST FRIEND,” the year it was made, appears to be an abstraction, though a closer look reveals that it is loaded with barely recognizable imagery from the cartoon series Tom and Jerry. In appropriating and restyling images from pop culture, KAWS attempts to align himself with figures like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The painting sold in May 2019 at Christie’s Hong Kong venue during a contemporary art for $3 million, against an estimate of $1.6 million