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Andy Warhol’s shoe prints to be sold in auction

Mar 24, 2016 United States
Andy Warhol’s shoe prints to be sold in auction
It became known that Warhol, one of the major figures of the pop art movement, used to sketch shoes. Now its shoe prints will go on auction and can reach 215 thousand US dollars
Andy Warhol, an entrepreneur, painter and movie director, was one of the most important figures of the pop art movement. Now it came to the public’s knowledge that we used to sketch shoes, as Sotheby’s auction house announced it will be putting a complete portfolio of Warhol shoe prints on the spotlight during its auction next week.

Titled A La Recherche Du Shoe Perdu, the collection consists of 16 offset lithographs, 15 of which have been hand-colored. A double cover is included, also hand-colored.



Each individual shoe print comes annotated with text written by poet Ralph Pomeroy with the lettering by Julia Warhol, the artist's mother. Many of the captions referenced  pop culture, such as a deep red shoe accompanied by the words Dial M for shoe, relating to the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Dial M For Murder.



The illustrations were created in 1955, during Warhol’s experience as a commercial artist for shoe company I. Miller.

Sotheby’s has listed the estimates for the sale at between 143 470 and 215 205 US dollars.

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