Warhol’s Double Elvis could fetch $30M at Christie’s sale

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[Jaime1234]

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I have already included it on the Wikipedia Art section of cultural depictions of Elvis Presley. After the auction, I shall change the sentence accordingly. THANKS

Art
Known Andy Warhol's Elvis sikscreens and their current whereabouts, including art museums worldwide, and prices met, when applicable.

i) "Single Elvis", 1963, acquired in 2009 for a price still undetermined by billionaire Eli Broad, founder and owner of The Broad Museum, in Los Angeles, CA, where it is now located. Similar original silkscreens, all from 1963, are located at 1) the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, 2) the National Gallery of Australia in Parkes, Canberra, 3) the Akron Art Museum, in Akron OH 4) The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA and 5) the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Chicago Il.

ii) "Elvis I and II", 1963-64, one located at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, with another also found at the Berlin Pergamon Museum of Art in Berlin, Germany.

iii) "Double Elvis", 1963, sold privately in 1989 by the Estate of Albert Grossman, (previous owner, Grossman's main client, Bob Dylan) to the New York Museum of Modern Art for US750,000. Another 17 original silkscreens similar to the aforementioned are said to exist, including those located at the 1) Seattle Art Museum, in Seattle, WA ( for which Warhol made a second, blank panel to be paired with the painting to emphasize absence and loss, 2) the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in Bilbao, Spain, 3) the Kunsthalle Hamburg Museum, in Hamburg Germany, 4) the Fukuoka Art Museum, in Japan, and 5) "Ghost Elvis" because it is the final and most opaque image in the series, as exhibited in July 2012 at the Halcyon Gallery in London England. See also v) below,

iv) "Double Elvis", 1963, sold at Sotheby's on May 9, 2012 for US$37.1 million (not the same silkscreen as any of those mentioned in iii) above, the buyer being billionaire Jose Mugrabi. Another original, also quite alike the latter and entitled "Elvis 2 times" 1963, can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. A third, almost identical silkscreen from the same 1963 period is set to go on sale on May 19, 2018 at NY's Christie's, its estimated price tag of around $30 million.

v) "Elvis X2", 1963, bought for US$15.7 million. at Christie's on 13 November 2007 and currently located at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Canada-

vi) "Triple Elvis", 1963, purchased at Christie's in November 13, 2014 for US$81.9 million by billionaires Doris and Donald Fisher, who lent it to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Similar silkscreens, also from 1963, can be found at 1) the Richmond Art Museum in Richmond, VA, its original owners being philanthropists Frances and Sydney Lewis. It is currently in loan at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS and shall remain there until July 8, 2018 and 2) with two of the figures closely mixed and a third, isolated, can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

vii) "Elvis five" located at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

vii) "Eight Elvises", 1963, a one of a kind large silkscreen sold privately on 26 October 2008 by Italian art collector Annibale Berlingieri, for US$100 million (US$111.2 million with fees). It is thought to have been purchased by the House of Thani's Qatari Royal family.

viii) "Elvis eleven times", 1963, the largest Elvis by Warhol in existence, as well as being a unique piece, currently located at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA

ix) "Campbell' s Elvis", 1962, Warhol's first painting in which he superimposed two images onto a single canvas, auctioned at Christie's on 10 November 2010 for US$1.45 million.

x) "Gold (en) Boot (Slippers) Elvis Presley", 1957. Currently in the private collection of actor Tom Lacy of the NBC TV series Law & Order

xi) "Red Elvis," 1962, bought privately in February 2000, for US$2.9 million and later adjudicated, after a Connecticut Superior Court ruling, to its original owner, billionaire Peter M. Brant

xii) "Elvis 21 times", 1962, sold at Sotheby's on 3 May 1993 for a still undisclosed amount. The seller was the Andy Warhol Foundation, the buyer being Warhol collector and actress Jane Holzer. It is now on loan at the Joseph K. Levene Fine Art Gallery in Nueva York.

xiii) "Elvis 49 times" Current location, propietor unknown.

xiv) "Elvis Presley Rock Close up", 1964, at the Art NY Gallery.

Totals paid (at either auctions houses or privately) for the seven above silkscreens whose prices are known, as of March of 2018: US$239,800,000.
See also List of most expensive paintings


Other Elvis-related,or based on known earlier works focussing on Elvis and prices met, when applicable.
(Artists listed in alphabetical order, for ease of reference)

Jef Aerosol's Elvis, at the Passage des Postes, Rue Blainville, Latin Quarter,Paris.
Craig Alan's "Elvis", at the Whitewall Galleries, headquartered in High Wycombe, London.
Robert Arneson's "Elvis", an 8 foot sculpture shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC
Tammam Azzam of the Syrian cultural caravan's "Elvis Warhol"
Noah Becker's "Elvis", 2014, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, as shown at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery in Saanich, British Columbia.
Knowledge Bennett' Elvis (Cojones series) as shown at the SCOPE Art Show in NYC in March 2017 with an estimated worth of US$17,500.
Peter Blake's "Girls with their hero" (1959), currently housed at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, England.
Mr. Brainwash's Don't be cruel series
Enrique Chagoya's "Elvis meets the Virgin of Guadalupe", as shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1994, the property of philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer
Ralph Wolfe Cowen ( Painter of The Visionary)'s "Elvis", as shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, its sister painting currently at the Graceland Museum in Memphis, TN.
Adam Devir's "Woman as Elvis", Acrylic Silkscreen on Canvas 1.98 x 1.52 cm at National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Leah Devorah's "Elvis Presley", as shown at the ArcLight Hollywood in November of 2017.
Simon Dixon's Elvis 56, 30x30 prints at Art Republic.
William Eggleston's Elvis and Priscilla ( untitled), 1983 (printed 1984), located at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a gift from Amy Loeserman Klein
Elisabetta Fantone's "Elvis" , at the Pangee Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Howard Finster's "Elvis as a baby", as shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC
Douglas Gordon's "Self Portrait of You + Me (Split Elvis)", 2015
Red Grooms's "Elvis", as shown at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC
Keith Haring's Elvis,as shopw in 2010, at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York.
Betty Harper's "Rock is born" and other Elvis drawings in her collection, as shown in 2013, at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville TN.
Deborah Kass's "Double Silver Yentl (My Elvis)"and "My Elvis", both 1993 and located at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York,NY
Steve Kaufman's "Elvis" as shown in 2017 at the Gallery Hotel Art, in Florence, Italy
Jeff Koons's "Triple Elvis " sold at Christie's on May 13, 2015 for US$8,565,000
Marc Lacroix's "The White Hand of Salvador Dali wearing the shirt Elvis gave him", 1971, property of Damien Leclere, Marseille,France
Hal Mayforth's ! Elvis has left the building" Original acrylic on wood panel - 12 x 16 inches, price met US$1,300
Shannon Oksanen's "Blue Elvis" ,2008 Oil on linen 20 x 18 inches (Est.$5,500), as shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Dren Maliqui's "Face to Face" , as shown in The Gallery of Fine Arts – Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, in Novi Sad, Serbia, on February 7, 2008.
Peter Mars, whose "Elvis" exhibit was first launched at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in 2011.
Ronnie McDowell's "Reflections of the King", published in connexion with his TV series “Ronnie McDowell Painting America,”
Vik Muniz's "Double Elvis" , 1999, shown at the Chicago Art Institute and currently at the home of Lio Malka, owner of New York's "Lio Malca Gallery".
Steve Payne 's "Elvis" ( dovetailing George Dawe's Russian general portraits with Payne's 2018 Replace a Face technique.
George Dawe Guy Peellaert 's "Elvis Presley's Last Supper", in Rock Dreams (1970-1973)
Richard Pettibone’s "Andy Warhol, Elvis, 1964" (13.3 x 13.3 cm), sold in 2006 at Sotheby's London Office for US$226,818.
George Rodrigue's "You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Blue Dog", 1996, 24x36, at the Neal Auction Company
David Scheinmann's “Elvis/Marilyn”, silkscreen located at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville,KY. Also, Scheinmann's "Elvis Playboy", sold for US$ 5,400 in 2018.
Honoré Desmond Sharrer's "Leda & the Folks", painting focusing on Elvis' parents and currently alternating its location between the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Roger G. Taylor's "Elvis in Art", St. Martin's Press (1997), ISBN 0-3120-1381-7
Gavin Turk's "Diamond Yellow Elvis" , a shown at the Sean Kelly Gallery in Manhattan.
David Uhl's Elvis in tune, 2007 currently at Graceland.
Donald Urquhart's Elvis, at Glasgow' s Gallery of Modern Art,in Scotland
Andy Warhol's "Portrait of Jean-Michel as David", (1986), a silverscreen of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat which revisits Warhol's seminal 1963 painting "Double Elvis". It was sold at Sotheby's in New York City on 14 May, 2014 for US$ 3,189,000
David Willardson's "Elvis I &II" as shown in the Rebecca Molayem Gallery in West Hollywood, CA
Ronnie Wood's "Elvis I 1988" , Serigraph on Paper, 30 x 23 in, Hand Signed at Lower Right

[jurasic1968]

Fantastic post. Thanks a lot.

[Jaime1234]

Fantastic post. Thanks a lot.

Many thanks. I don't know if you noticed, but thus far, this century, we know the prices met in only 7 of those Warhols. And their total is US$239,800,000. So, even if this next Elvis Warhol only sells for, say, US$11 million, that would increase the KNOWN WARHOL ELVIS 21 CENTURY TALLY to a much easier to remember total, LOL, namely " over a quarter of a billion US dollars"

[jurasic1968]

He was a great artist, one of the best of the 20'th century. I am very glad he painted Elvis and Marilyn Monroe.

[Jaime1234]

The actual owner, previously thought to have been billionaire Jose Mugrabe, appears to be billionaire Steve Wynn, who is short of cash as he had to sell his entire stock in the hotels he owns in Las Vegas because of sexual harassment scandals earlier this year, the result being his losing US$456 million this year alone. And reports are now coming out that if his Double Elvis sells for US$30 milion at Christies', this coming May he will take a US$7 million loss, as he was the buyer when this same silkscreen sold at Sotheby's in 2012 for US$37.1 million, with fees.

[Jaime1234]

The actual owner, previously thought to have been billionaire Jose Mugrabe, appears to be billionaire Steve Wynn, who bought it from Mugrabe for an undisclosed price and is now is short of cash as he had to sell his entire stock in the hotels he owns in Las Vegas because of sexual harassment scandals earlier this year, the result being his losing US$456 million this year alone. And reports are now coming out that if his Double Elvis sells for US$30 milion at Christies', this coming May he will take a US$7 million loss, as he was the buyer when this same silkscreen sold at Sotheby's in 2012 for US$37.1 million, with fees.