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ANDY WARHOL, Diamond Dust Shoes, 1981

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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.

PROVENANCE The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York
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.

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