Name/Title
Woman with pink lipsEntry/Object ID
2021.56Description
Bust of a female figure with short cropped hair. Her eyes are wide and she has a small pink mouth.Context
The collection of works here date from the early to mid 1950s, the period when Warhol was primarily producing illustrations for the shoe manufacturer Israel Miller. Warhol’s colorful designs depict shoes and boots adorned with gold leaf, embossed foil, and decorative cut outs. Beneath each design is scrawled a pithy phrase or aphorism such as à la recerche du shoe perdue, a reference to Marcel Proust’s magnum opus A la recherche du temps perdu. Other works in this collection depict the chic and fashionable city dwellers Warhol would have seen on the streets and at parties upon first moving to New York.Acquisition
Accession
2021.51-57Source or Donor
Judy BlumbergAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Judith K. BlumbergLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
DrawingNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Drawing, Female figure drawings