Triple Elvis
{{short description|1963 painting by Andy Warhol}}
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{{Infobox Painting
| image_file=Andy Warhol Triple Elvis.jpg
| image_size=400px
| caption=Painting from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
| title=Triple Elvis
| artist=Andy Warhol
| year=1963
| height_metric=208.92
| width_metric=300.99
| museum=Private collection
}}
Triple Elvis is a 1963 painting of Elvis Presley by the American artist Andy Warhol. The photographic image of Elvis used by Warhol as a basis for this work, taken from a publicity still from the movie Flaming Star, has become iconic and synonymous with the singer.{{Cite web|url=https://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=45234|title=International Paintings and Sculpture {{!}} Andy Warhol's Elvis series|website=nga.gov.au|access-date=April 14, 2018}}
A Triple Elvis' was sold for $81.9m (£51.9m) at a Christie's auction in New York in November 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30033747|title=Andy Warhol's Elvis triptych sells for $81.9m|work=BBC News|date=November 13, 2014 |access-date=November 13, 2014}}
Another Triple Elvis (1964, 208.3 x 121.5 cm.), the first in the Triple Elvis series whose price became known, heralded a trio of images so close together that they appear to be one. It sold at Christie's on November 19, 1998 for US$1,872,500.
Other versions
Other paintings of the same subject by Warhol show Elvis repeated a number of times, such as in the silkscreen painting Double Elvis, which reproduces the second image, almost as a shadow, owned by the Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-double-elvis-1963|title=MoMA {{!}} Andy Warhol. Double Elvis. 1963|website=www.moma.org|access-date=April 14, 2018}}
A further version of the painting, Double Elvis (Ferus type), was auctioned on May 17, 2018, for US$37 million.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/warhols-elvis-portrait-could-fetch-30-million-at-christies-sale.html|title=Warhol's Elvis portrait could fetch $30 million at Christie's sale|last=CNBC|date=April 6, 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=April 14, 2018}} Another larger version, Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen, was sold in 2008 by Annibale Berlingieri for $100 million to a private buyer. The current owner and location of the painting, which has not been seen publicly since the 1960s, are unknown.{{Cite web|url=http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/11/andy-warhols-eight-elvises-sells-for-100-million/|title=Andy Warhol's Eight Elvises Sells for $100 million « Arrested Motion|website=ArrestedMotion|language=en-US|access-date=April 14, 2018}}
Appropriations of Warhol's Elvis paintings
Other prominent artists have been inspired by Warhol's paintings of Elvis, such as British YBA artist, Gavin Turk, who appropriated the image and stance of Elvis in the Warhol series to produce his own versions of the work. Examples of Turk's silkscreen works on canvas are Yellow Diamond Elvis, 2005, and Pink Diamond Elvis, 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://gavinturk.com/artworks/tags/Elvis|title=Gavin Turk {{!}} Elvis|website=gavinturk.com|access-date=April 14, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/gavin-turk/|title=Gavin Turk on impersonating Elvis and the Elvis paintings|last=Bomb Magazine|date=September 5, 2013}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/gavin-turk-exhibition-review-a-trip-inside-turks-quirky-imagination-a3401506.html|title=Gavin Turk, exhibition review: A trip inside Turk's quirky imagination|work=Evening Standard|access-date=April 14, 2018|language=en-GB}}
See also
References
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Category:Paintings by Andy Warhol