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« One of the panels bears a full and a partial silk-screened photographic image of Elvis Presley (1935-1977), dressed as a cowboy and holding a gun that he points at the image's viewers.

The other panel is blank.

Warhol decided to add the blank panel several years after the first image was created.

The partial silk-screened photo is suggestive of Elvis appearing out of and disappearing into the blank panel, as if he were a ghost figure.

The full image is cut off slightly on the bottom left corner, which suggests the continuation and repetition of the image beyond the borders of the canvas.

Several versions of Double Elvis exist in private and public art collections worldwide, although each version is slightly different.

In the version of Double Elvis in the Tate Modern's collection in London, for example, the silk-screened image appears intact in a single panel.

Warhol was inspired by Elvis Presley's successful 1960 film "Flaming Star," in which the singer-actor played a half-white, half-Native American struggling between two cultures.. »