Roy Lichtenstein’s Anxious Girl up for Auction
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Roy Lichtenstein’s long-lost Anxious Girl (1964) is up for auction this weekend and is rumored to go for $60 million. Roy was a leading artist in the Pop Art movement. Some of his best known pieces were large stylized pieces that looked like cut-outs from a newspaper or comic book. Anxious Girl was derived by DC Comics Girls’ Romances #97 (below). The cover artist was Tony Abruzzo.
Description of Anxious Girl from Christie:
Anxious Girl is among a highly prized group of Lichtenstein’s most celebrated works from the 1960s: paintings featuring lovelorn young women inspired by mass-produced comics. The earliest of this group is considered to be The Engagement Ring from 1961—however, the most sophisticated and desirable were made during 1963-1965. Anxious Girl is one of only ten paintings from this short time period that feature an individual woman as the sole subject in a tightly cropped frame, investigating both the psychology and beauty of the female form. The last time a masterpiece painting of the exceptionally rare Girl series came to auction was more than a decade ago; Lichtenstein’s Nurse sold at Christie’s New York in November 2015 for $95 million and established the current record price for the artist.
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