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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
À la Recherche du Shoe Perdu
a complete set of sixteen letterpress illustrations, including fifteen hand-colored with watercolor, and the folded hand-colored letterpress cover, on paper, comprised of the following plates:
1. Sunset and evening shoe
2. When I'm calling shoe
3. I dream of Jeannie with the light brown shoes
4. Shoe bright, shoe bright, first shoe I've seen tonight
5. shoe fly Baby
6. you can lead a shoe to water but you can't make it drink
7. in her sweet little Alice blue shoes
8. The autobiography of alice B. Shoe
9. See a shoe Pick it up and all the day long you'll have Good Luck
10. Beauty is shoe, shoe beauty...
11. Shoe of the evening, beautiful shoe.
12. to shoe or not to shoe
13. Dial M for shoe
14. Uncle Sam wants Shoe!
15. My Shoe is your shoe
16. Any one for Shoes?
Cover size: 20 x 26¼ in. (51 x 66.5 cm.)
Plate size: 9¾ x 13¾ in. (24.8 x 34.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1955. Four plates are stamped with the Andy Warhol Estate and the Andy Warhol Foundation stamps, the remaining plates are stamped with the Andy Warhol Authentication Board stamp. (17)
Literature
A. Brown, Andy Warhol: His Early Works 1947-1959, New York, 1971, pp. 34-36 (another example illustrated).
C. Ratcliff, Andy Warhol, New York, 1983, p. 18 (another example illustrated, pp. 16-17, nos. 8 and 9).
R. Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist, New York, 1987, pp. 64, 67 and 270 (another example illustrated, p. 64).
K. McShine, Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, New York, 1988, p. 105, no. 32 (another example illustrated in color).
G. Celant, Andy Warhol: a factory, Porto, 2000, nos. 34-50 (another example illustrated in color).
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