SHOES AND ART

Art is a fairly dirty word used by a large number of people hiding behind walls of themselves.

Charles Bukowski

from poem Art Class (Bone Palace Ballet - HarperCollins, 1997)

EUGENE DELACROIX
1832 | Etude De Babouches

FÉLICIE DE FAUVEAU
1847 | Right Foot Of The Dancer Fanny Elssler

VARIOUS ARTISTS
1850-1940 | Sabots

FRANCOIS BONVIN
1876 | Les souliers d'un réserviste

EDOUARD MANET
1876-1880 | Drawings

EDGAR DEGAS
1878 | Etudes

EVA GONZALÈS
1879 - 1880 | White Shoes |

WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER
1879 | Old Shoe With Mice

VINCENT VAN GOGH
1881 - 1885 | Wooden Clogs |
1885 - 1889 | Shoes & Boots |

FERDINAND HODLER
1882 | The Cobbler By The Window |

HENRI CHARLES GUERARD
1888 | The Assault Of The Shoe

UNKNOWN
Ca. 1890 | The shoe: object of seduction

ILYA REPIN

1883 | Boots Of The Prince

PAUL GAUGUIN
1888 | The Clog-Maker

NATHAN ALTMAN
1911 | Still Life With Blue Slippers

EGON SCHIELE
1915 - 1918 | At The Metropolitan Museum | NY

HANNAH HÖCH
1916 - 1963

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON
1919 - 1920 | Boots

GIACOMO BALLA
1920 | Futurism Explained To A Cobbler
1928 - 1929 | Study For A Woman's Shoe

NORMAN ROCKWELL
1921 | Cobbler Studying Doll's Shoe
1969 | Spring Flowers

GRANT WOOD
1926 | Old Shoes

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON
Ca. 1926 | Shoes

KÄTE HOCH
1927 | Still Life With Boots

KARL SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF
1928 | Antiques

SALVADOR DALÍ
1931 | Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded In Sand
1931 | Scatological Object Functioning Symbolically
1937 | Cannibalism Of The Object
1941 | Original Sin

RENE MAGRITTE
1930 | The Key To Dreams
1935 | La Modèle Rouge | The Red Model
1935 | L'Amour Dèsarmè
1947 | Philosophy In The Boudoir

CAROL RAMA
1936 | Grandmother Carolina

JOAN MIRÓ
1937 | Still Life With Old Shoe |

YIANNIS MORALIS
1941 | Shoes

MAN RAY
1942 | Broken Chair With Stump And Ballet Shoes

ABRAHAM RATTNER
1943 | Window at Montauk Point
1947 | Still Life With Shoes

JACOB LAWRENCE
1945 | The Shoemaker

WIM VAN HOOFF
(After) 1945 | Stolen Shoes

LOLA ÁLVAREZ BRAVO

1949 | El Sueño De Los Pobres 2

MARCEL DUCHAMP
1950 | Not A Shoe

JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE
1953 | Les chaussures de Jean-Paul Riopelle

JOPIE HUISMAN
1958-1980

ANDY WARHOL
[Diamond Dust Shoes | The Golden Slipper | Drawings for I. Miller & More ]

JO BAER
1960 | Glass Slippers | Bootless Boots |

CLAES OLDENBURG
1961-1963 | Shoes

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
1961 - 1962 | Keds
1962 | Flatten -- Sandfleas!
1964 | Foot And Hand

CHRISTO
1964 | Untitled [Dedicated to Ugo Mulas]

MARISOL ESCOBAR
1964 | Shoe And Hand

JIŘI KOLÁŘ
1965 - 1986 | A Walk With Jiří Kolář

ARMAN
1965 | Untitled
1966 | Shoes And Shoes

DOMENICO GNOLI
1966 - 1968 | Shoes

HERVE TELEMAQUE
1966 - 1968 | Shoes

ALEXANDER CALDER
1968 | Milton's Shoes

ALEX KATZ
1968 | Black Shoes
1987 | Beach Sandals
1987 | Green Shoes

ALLEN JONES
1968 | The (Complete) Shoe Box
1976 - 1977 | Untitled

BARBARA NESSIM
1969 - 1979 | Shoes

ELEANOR ANTIN
1971 - 1973 | 100 Boots

JAY DEFEO
1971-1972 | Untitled

DON EDDY
1972 - 1974 | The Complete Shoe Series

RICHARD ESTES
1974 | Qualcraft Shoes - Chinese Lady

ERTÉ (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF)
1934 | Shoe Designs For Delman
1974 | Brown Boots

ANDREW NEWELL WYETH
1976 | Sea Boots

PAUL WUNDERLICH
1976-1982 | A Deux/Skullshoe

YAYOI KUSAMA
1976-1999 | Shoes

PHILIP GUSTON
1980 | Shoes

WAYNE THIEBAUD
1963 - 1983 | Black Shoes
1979 - 2003 | Shoerows

ROBERT QUALTERS
1984 | Nick's Shoe Reapair

RAYMOND PETTIBON
1984-1991 | B&W Shoes

KEITH HARING
1985 | Eight Shoes

ROMAN SIEGLER
1986 | Water Boots/Wasserstiefel

ENRIQUE CHAGOYA
1989/1997 | Thesis/Anthitesis

ROBERT GOBER
1989-1993 | Untitled (Legs)

JUNGJIN LEE
1990 | Sole Of Tennis Shoe

MIMMO PALLADINO
1990 | Glenn Gould's Shoes

BARBARA KRUGER
1990 | Untitled (You Can't Drag Your Money Into The Grave With You)

MIMMO ROTELLA
1993 | The Ankle Boot

GRAZIANO SPINOSI
1993 - 1999 | Shoes

MANOLO VALDÉS
1994 | Shoe In A Yellow Shop Window

1996 | TONY CAPELLÁN
1996 | MAR CARIBE

BRIAN JUNGEN
1999 - 2005 | Prototype for New Understanding

WILLIE COLE
2007 | Shine
1995 - 2011 | Solestice

RUTH MARTEN
2008 | Las Recesionistas, Shoes

MAURIZIO CATTELAN
2009 | Untitled

GRAZIANO LOCATELLI
2013 | Untitled

NORTHAMPTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY [U.K.]
History, Art & Shoes
Part ONE
Part TWO

PAGANI MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | CASTELLANZA, MILAN - ITALY
Part ONE
Part TWO
Featuring Fernand Léger & Toyofuku Tomonori