"Eight elvises" is a 12-foot painting that has all the virtues of a great Andy Warhol: fame, repetition and the threat of death. The canvas is also awash with the artist's favourite colour, silver, and dates from a vintage Warhol year, 1963. It did not leave the home of Annibale Berlin-gieri, a Roman collector, for 40 years, but in autumn 2008 it sold for over $100m in a deal brokered by Philippe Segalot, the French art consultant. That sale was a world record for Warhol and a benchmark that only four other artists-Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning and Gustav Klimt-have ever achieved.
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