Roy Lichtenstein’s Anxious Girl Expected to Fetch Up to $60 Million at Christie’s
The 1964 Pop Art masterpiece has never before been seen in public, and is a highlight of the upcoming Spring Marquee Week of Sales
Christie’s has announced that Roy Lichtenstein’s Anxious Girl will be offered during New York’s Spring Marquee Week of Sales, where it is expected to fetch between $40-60 million. A part of one of Lichtenstein’s most celebrated series of works, the Pop-era painting features Ben-Day dots, each meticulously applied by the artist’s hand in a method he made famous.
“Anxious Girl is a best-in-class example of Roy Lichtenstein, from 1964, the pinnacle of his career,” says Sara Friedlander, Chairman of Post-War and Contemporary Art, at Christie’s “Compositionally, the painting showcases the artist’s singular ability to distill complex visual cues into three core elements—line, color, and form—and formally employ them into conveying deep human emotion through timeless love stories and comic book-inspired imagery.”
The painting, which was at one point in the collection of Horace and Holly Solomon, is one of only ten paintings by Lichtenstein that feature a woman as the sole subject. The last time a painting from the series came to auction was 2015, when Nurse sold for $95 million, setting a record for the artist.