Lichtenstein's auction record stands at £63.4 million, set by Nurse (1964) at Christie's in 2015 after ten minutes of bidding from New York, Hong Kong and telephone bidders. In May 2026, Anxious Girl (1964), which had been out of public view for more than three decades, sold at Christie's for approximately £36 million, the first work to enter Lichtenstein's top ten highest-value sales since 2020.
His print market reached approximately £13 million at the hammer across 354 lots in 2025, the highest annual sales value and volume of the past five years, up from £7.2 million in 2021. That total spread across his Nudes, his 1960s Pop imagery, his Interiors and his abstract series.
Demand has broadened well beyond his top-tier results, with a small number of exceptional works continuing to account for the majority of total market value each year. Sotheby's held its first live evening sale built entirely around Lichtenstein's own editioned collection in 2025, over ninety works, achieving a white-glove result with every lot finding a buyer, and individual results from that period included Water Lilies With Willows, which sold for £948,967.