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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
A la Recherche du Shoe Perdu
a set of thirteen letterpress illustrations, including twelve hand-colored with watercolor, and the folded hand-colored letterpress cover, on paper, circa 1955, executed before the published edition of about 100, to poems by rolph Pomeroy, 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 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.
Cover size: 20 x 26.5/8 in. (50.8 x 67.5 cm.)
Plate size: 9 x 13 in. (24.8 x 34.8 cm.) (14)
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).
D. Bourdon, Warhol, New York, Abrams, 1989, p. 12, no. 13 (another example of one shoe illustrated, p. 59).
