New : Lichtenstein 's ` ` Sleeping Beauty '' sold for $ 44.9 million . ` ` Double Elvis '' considered among the most famous of Warhol 's portraits of celebrities . The piece ( silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas ) shows Elvis Presley in a gunslinger pose . Price is short of the $ 50 million that Sotheby 's had predicted it would fetch . Warhol , who died in 1995 , made 22 versions of ` ` Double Elvis '' paintings .
New : Lichtenstein 's ` ` Sleeping Beauty '' sold for $ 44.9 million . ` ` Double Elvis '' considered among the most famous of Warhol 's portraits of celebrities . Price is short of the $ 50 million that Sotheby 's had predicted it would fetch . Warhol , who died in 1995 , made 22 versions of ` ` Double Elvis '' paintings .