A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu
signed and titled 'A la Recherche du shoe Perdu by Andy Warhol' (upper right) and inscribed 'Shoe poems by ralph Pomeroy' and 'Gene Federico' (lower right of cover); each stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol or the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. stamps and numbered respectively A131.009, PM12.0346, A135.009, A137.009, A140.009, A144.009, A146.009, A134.009, A136.009, A141.009, A142.009, A143.009, A145.009, A133.009, A139.009, A138.009, PM12.0423 and A132.009
a complete set of eighteen letterpress illustrations hand-colored with watercolor and the hand-colored letterpress cover, on paper, comprised of the following plates:

1. My Shoe is Your Shoe
2. Dial M for Shoe
3. To shoe or not to shoe
4. Shoe of the evening, beautiful shoe
5. shoe bright, shoe light, first shoe ive seen tonight
6. Shoe fly Baby
7. Beauty is shoe, shoe beauty...
8. any one for shoes?
9. When I'm calling shoe 10. I dream of jeannie with the light brown shoes. 11. sunset and evening shoe
12. you can lead a shoe to water but you can't make it drink
13. Uncle Sam wants shoe!
14. The autobiography of alice B. shoe
15. See a shoe and pick it up and all day long you'll have Good luck
16. In her Sweet Little Alice Blue Shoes
17. Untitled (shoe with patterned stocking)
cover: 17 x 22 7/8 in. (43 x 58 cm.)
16 sheets each: 9¾ x 13¾ in. (22.9 x 35 cm.)
one sheet: 24¾ x 13¾ in. (63 x 35 cm.)
Executed circa 1955.

Provenance

Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York

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. 8-9).
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, ed., Andy Warhol: A Retropective, New York, 1989, 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).

Further details

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Lot Essay

It has been estimated that approximately 100 of each illustration were produced and hand-colored, often during "painting parties" at The Factory. Most were given by the artist to friends and to Factory visitors.

A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu

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