Highlights of the cross-category sale include a hand-painted resin sculpture of Kaws' signature Companion figures, entitled Untitled (Astro Boy), which is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000. 

Also on offer is a ceramic tile mosaic work by French urban artist Invader, entitled Alias SP_43, which is expected to sell for up to US$60,000.

This pre-sale high estimate is far from Invader's current auction record of €356,200 (about US$419,238), which was set by Vienna in May 2019 during Artcurial's sale of urban and pop art in Paris.

Collectors will also have the opportunity to acquire Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Jonas Wood's Big Brown, which is estimated to go under the hammer for up to US$70,000. 

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“Trespassing is a convergence of emerging trends in our market and is designed to entice both brand-new buyers and those who are familiar with our sales,” Lindsay Griffith, head of Christie's prints and multiples department in New York, said in a statement.

While street art's popularity has soared in the auction market in recent years, Trespassing is one of the numerous online-only auctions held by Christie's in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the first half of 2020, the auction house had organized 108 online-only sales, up from 38 in the same period of 2019.