Christie’s will offer Roy Lichtenstein’s 1964 painting *Anxious Girl* from the collection of legendary New York collector-dealer Holly Solomon and her husband Horace, with an estimate of $40–60 million. If it reaches its high estimate, it will become the artist’s second-priciest work at auction, trailing only *Nurse* (1964), which sold for $95.4 million in 2015. The work leads Christie’s 20th-century evening sale on May 18, amid a flurry of high-value consignments as both Christie’s and Sotheby’s aim to sustain momentum after posting improved 2025 results.
The sale matters because it tests the resilience of the top-tier auction market after a period of volatility, with Christie’s reporting $6.2 billion in global sales for 2025 and Sotheby’s a record $7 billion. The painting also underscores the enduring value of Pop art and Lichtenstein’s market, where seven of his top ten auction prices come from the early 1960s. Additionally, the work’s provenance—tied to Holly Solomon, a key patron of Pop artists—and the upcoming Lichtenstein retrospective at the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim’s Pop art survey signal sustained institutional and collector interest in the movement.