The Life, Death and Afterlife of Elvis Presley
msn.comEight Elvises, was sold by the Italian art collector Annibale Berlingieri in a private sale for $100m to an unidentified buyer, thought to be the Qatari royal family.
In 2014, another Warhol painting, Triple Elvis, sold for nearly $82m at an auction at Christie’s in New York. In the years since his death, the character of Elvis has featured in some 31 feature films, played by actors including Kurt Russell, Harvey Keitel and Don Johnson.
According to the film critic John Beifuss, since 1957 there has been a minimum of 400 movies that contain some allusion to Elvis, 18 a year since 1998.
In June, the Australian director Baz Luhrmann, of Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby notoriety, will add to the list with a new film, starring Tom Hanks as the Colonel and a newcomer, Austin Butler, as Elvis.
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