Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement. ​Using a variety of media materials from photographs up to computer-generated art, Warhol's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity, culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.
Emerging from the poverty and obscurity of an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh, Warhol became a charismatic magnet for bohemian New York. In 1960, he began to produce his first canvases depicting Popeye and Dick Tracy. After Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, he started working from snapshots of the star’s already legendary face, which had been widely distributed by the world’s press. His choice of subjects clearly relates to an obsession with demise – his Marilyns, his Ten Lizies (created when the actress Elizabeth Taylor was seriously ill), and also his Elvis. Part of the “Death and Disaster” series, Andy Warhol´s Marilyn Monroes are undoubtedly iconic portraits of our era, exploring as they do the artist’s fascination for images of death and beauty. He worked across many media as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, film-maker, and writer, and produced many world-famous series. Andy Warhol Flower´s series reinterprets a traditional motif spanning the history of art, while Warhol´s Cambell´s Soup Can series represents the mass-produced, printed advertisements that inspired him since his childhood. Towards the end of 1962, the artist turned to the photo-silkscreen process, which became his signature medium. From 1963 up until 1968, the year in which he was shot, Warhol – surrounded by assistants in his studio The Factory – took the industrial character of his work to its climax. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions and books, as well as feature and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Andy Warhol´s artworks are some of the most influential works of art of the second half of the twentieth century, representing the most recognizable images ever produced.

Andy Warhol

Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images.

This porcelain multiple was produced in 2007 by porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal Studio-Line, in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the visual Arts INC., New York.
The work features a seminal piece from the artist's iconic series about the singer: a double image of a gun-slinging Elvis.

"Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution… the 60's comes from it."
-LEONARD BERNSTEIN

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol got interested in celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor as subjects for his silkscreen paintings. He created the painting from which this edition was made in 1963 – at a point when the famous singer’s career was about to decline. Nevertheless, Warhol’s double image of a Platinum Elvis shows the singer, who is famous for his hip-shaking pose, dressed to kill as a cowboy with pistols raised and ready to shoot, as strong as he appeared on the climax of his career throughout the 1950s. The spray painted silver platinum background adds to this glamorous appearance, making this image one of Warhol’s most iconic ones.

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“ My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in film’s case ‘run on’ – manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. „

—Andy Warhol