ANDY WARHOL "À la Recherche du Shoe Perdu." "Beauty is shoe, shoe beauty...", 1955 Offset litograph with hand-colouring in watercolour on wove paper. Dimension of the sheet: 24,6 x 34,7 cm Stamped by the Andy Warhol Authentication Board and the Estate of Andy Warhol with ink stamp and annotated PMP.2 in pencil on verso lower right. Provenance: Marlborough Graphics, New York (U.S.A.) Created in collaboration with Ralph Pomeroy who wrote the poems. The lettering was done by Julia Warhola, the mother of Andy Warhol. Reference: F&S IV. 71 Frayda Feldman & Jorg Schelmann, "Andy Warhol Prints. Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987", Fourth edition revised and expanded, New York, 2003, p.334-337, IV 71 In the illustrated book "À la Recherche du Shoe Perdu." Andy Warhol is inspired for the title by Marcel Proust's famous book. Each of the image of the portfolio presents a shoe centrally placed on the page and accompanied by a simple line of text, a verbal visual composition that remind us of a conceptual advertising with reference of high and popular culture. "Shoes" became Warhol's signature product and his first group exhibition at New York Museum of Modern Art included a shoe drawing. This very rare artwork is in good condition and it could be sold with the frame and passepartout, dimension of the frame: 48 x 38 x 4 cm, the frame is colored in red color. Please write through Catawiki message if you want to buy the frame extra. Professional packaging for shipping, insurance cost included in the shipping cost for Europe, for extra european countries the insurance cost should be calculated after quotation and payed from the buyer before shipping. Attention: The book shown in the photos is not included in the lot.