Andy Warhol (after) - Double Elvis

After Andy Warhol & Sunday B. Morning, Double Elvis, 2011.

Color silkscreen print, 91 x 91 cm. Stamped on the reverse: "Published by Sunday B. Morning" and "fill in your own signature". Edition of 3500.

Provenance: Acquired from the publisher. The print comes with a certificate.

This print is an authorized version of Sunday B. Morning. The rights to these prints were purchased from the Dutch owners in the 2000s and may therefore be officially reproduced.

Biography and background
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was an American artist, director, and co-founder of the Pop Art movement, which fused art and consumer culture. Warhol achieved worldwide fame through his iconic works such as the Campbell's Soup Cans and the Marilyn Monroe screen prints, which showcased his innovative use of mass production techniques and popular media. He revolutionized the art world by elevating everyday objects and celebrities to the status of art and blurring the lines between high and popular culture.

Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis," created in 1963, is one of his most famous works from the Pop Art era. It depicts two nearly identical, superimposed images of Elvis Presley in a cowboy pose, as if he were about to draw a gun. Warhol used his signature screen-printing technique, which he often employed to reproduce images from mass media culture.
By doubling the image of Elvis, Warhol creates a kind of illusion of movement, reinforcing the singer's iconic status and presenting him as a repeatable, almost superhuman pop culture phenomenon. In this work, Elvis is addressed not only as a musician, but also as an actor, advertising figure, and symbol of fame and mass consumption. Warhol's fascination with celebrities and the mechanisms of the media world is clearly reflected in this work, as he plays with reproduction and duplication, thus questioning the idea of the uniqueness of a work of art.
"Double Elvis" is a prime example of Warhol's technique and his reflection on mass production and the cult of celebrity that was becoming increasingly dominant in society at the time.

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