Andy Warhol’s 1963 painting Eight Elvises contains eight images of Elvis Presley.
Warhol based the repeated figure on a publicity photograph of Presley in his role as a Western-style film character. The painting presents the singer and actor in a line, using repetition to connect celebrity imagery with the visual language of advertising, newspapers, and popular entertainment.
Eight Elvises is a particularly large example of Warhol’s silkscreen-based celebrity paintings. Its repeated figures show how Warhol could turn one recognizable image into a pattern while preserving the subject’s identity. The work is often discussed alongside his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and other famous figures.
The title provides the numerical clue, but the work is still distinct from Warhol’s other Elvis paintings, including Triple Elvis. The word “eight” refers to the number of visible Presley figures in this specific composition.