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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York
Catalogue Essay
Shortly after arriving in New York in June 1949, Andy Warhol received his first freelance assignment—to illustrate shoes for an article in Glamour magazine, “Success is a job in New York.” Warhol’s success as a commercial illustrator for fashion magazines and advertising agencies dramatically grew as he became the sole illustrator for the I. Miller shoe campaign a few years later. Subsequently, shoes quickly became one of Warhol’s earliest and most classic motifs.
In the 1980s Warhol returned to images of shoes and began setting multicolored combinations of women’s shoes against black backgrounds and covering the surface with sparkling diamond dust—a medium first presented to him by his printer and fellow Pop artist, Rupert Smith. The sparkling and glittering qualities inherent to diamond dust allowed Warhol to dramatically imbue his works with a heightened sense of sexiness, high fashion, glamour and stardom that he so very much adored.
Artist Biography
Andy Warhol
American • 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Andy Warhol

Diamond Dust Shoes

1981

Acrylic and silkscreen inks with diamond dust on canvas.
50 3/4 x 42 1/2 in. (129 x 108 cm).

Stamped with The Estate of Andy Warhol and with The Andy Warhol Foundation seals and numbered “PA70.049” on the overlap.

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$300,000 - 400,000

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Untitled (from the series Guyton \ Walker: Empire Strikes Back)
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Ice Bucket
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Infinity Nets (T.W.A.)
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Untitled
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Ed Ruscha
Mean As Hell
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Speak
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Andy Warhol
Brillo Soap Pads Box
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Atlas
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Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes
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Wild West World
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Puny Undernourished Kid & Girlfriend From Hell
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Sonnenuntergang am Genfer See (Sunset on Lake Geneva)
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Nature Painting
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Moonlight
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Untitled
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Black Hole Cosmic Heads
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Untitled
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Her soft lips touched mine and every thing became hard
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Catalogue Essay

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Andy Warhol

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Diamond Dust Shoes

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