Roy Lichtenstein’s market has demonstrated sustained strength in 2026, with estate works achieving near-perfect sell-through rates above 99 percent and average prices nearly doubling year-over-year amid robust collector demand for blue-chip examples. Recent Sotheby’s dispersals of collages, prints, and sculptures from the artist’s personal collection have consistently exceeded estimates, reflecting broad institutional and private interest. “Green Head,” slated for the October 7 Contemporary Curated sale, benefits from this momentum just ahead of the Whitney Museum’s mid-October retrospective “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” which features major loans and is expected to heighten visibility. Traders are weighing the work’s specific medium and provenance against comparable recent results in the Nudes, Brushstroke, and mixed-media series when assessing price thresholds.