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Andy Warhol 1928-1987 Double Elvis Ferus Type 1963. The 1963 painting Triple Elvis was the top-seller at the biggest art auction in history.

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Andy Warhol s 1963 painting of Elvis Presley Triple Elvis Ferus Type has sold for nearly 82 million.

Andy warhol paintings elvis. Printed in black on silver it is an image from a publicity still for the Twentieth Century Fox film Flaming star 1960. 81 78 x 52 34 in 208 x 134 cm Sold for 53000000 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 May at Christies in New York. Andy Warhols Double Elvis Ferus Type sold for 37 million.

Andy Warhol created his first painting of Elvis Presley in 1963 portraying the King of Pop dressed up as a cowboy with a gun in hand aimed at the viewer. Andy Warhol Elvis 2 Times 1963 a Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen is perhaps the most famous depiction of the King of Rock n Roll by the Prince of Pop Art. In the early 1960s Andy Warhol turned to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor as artistic subject matter.

Best Paintings by Andy Warhol. From National Gallery of Victoria Andy Warhol Elvis 1963 Synthetic polymer paint screenprinted onto canvas 208 91 cm. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas 6 11 x 53 2108 x 1346 cm See this work in MoMAs Online Collection.

Elvis is one of a series of screenprinted paintings that Andy Warhol made of the popular American singer Elvis Presley 19351977. It is one of twenty-three Elvis canvases that were first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery Los Angeles in 1963 Warhols second show there. Consisting of 32 canvases each representing the 32 varieties offered by the company in those times this magnanimous work manifests Warhols skilled utilization of a theme highly relevant regarding the booming prosperity the Americans enjoyed.

One of the paintings is Warhols Triple Elvis Ferus Type which features the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley. He certainly is the most famous and successful artist of this genre. Andy Warhol Double Elvis 1963.

Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen. Modeled after a publicity still for the film Flaming Star 1960 the portrait is also the artists only portrayal of a full-length figure. There is a lot of talk stirring up the art world in anticipation for the upcoming sales of two Andy Warhol paintings estimated to be worth up to 130 million for both.

It was not mass produced like many of Warhols workIn 2008 it was sold for US100 million to make Warhol only the fifth artist to have a painting sold for at least 100 millionThe sale broke the record for a Warhol painting and the price paid for Eight. Warhol created Eight ElvisesAs one might perceive from the title this painting features the pop singer and idol of the late 1950s up until his untimely passing in 1977. Andy Warhol is generally regarded as the best pop artist of all time.

The painting combines an investigation of the uniquely American fascination with celebrity and mass media that emerged in the 1960s with. It has nothing on Orange Red Yellow the abstract painting that reportedly just set a contemporary art auction record with an 869 million dollar price tag but the combination of Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley still proved lucrative when it went up for auction at Sotheby. Warhols 1963 Elvis 2 Times represents a watershed moment in twentieth-century Art History.

Elvis I II was created in 1963 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art style. Warhol likely based this painting on a film still from the 1960 movie Flaming Star. A 12 foot painting of eight identical overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire Eight Elvises is a unique painting ie.

The high value of this painting in particular can be attributed to the paintings large dimensions Warhols rare use of painting on canvas and of course the magnificent star power of the the painting.

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