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Diamond Dust Shoes Complete Portfolio (F.S. II 248 - 252), (Deluxe Edition), 1980
Portfolio of 5 screen prints with diamond dust on Arches Aquarelle wove paper
40 1/8 x 59 1/2 in 101.9 x 151.1 cm
Edition of 10 plus 10 AP
Shoes (Deluxe Edition) (FS.II 248-252) is a portfolio of five diamond dust screenprints, published by Andy Warhol in 1980. Often referred to colloquially as the "diamond dust shoes," this series is notable not only for its luminous, glittering surface but also for its deep connection to Warhol’s personal history. This deluxe edition is particularly rare, consisting of just ten portfolios plus one printer’s proof.Each print features an assortment of shoes—ranging from stilettos to pumps—crafted from a variety of materials such as leather and velvet, arranged in dynamic, varied compositions. The rich diversity of textures and styles exudes a sense of aesthetic opulence, heightened by Warhol’s use of diamond dust. His deliberate choice of a low-contrast palette, with black shoes set against a dark grey background, allows the diamond dust to shimmer strikingly, as if the shoes were suspended among stars in a night sky. To fully appreciate the ethereal treatment of these feminine accessories, it is essential to consider Warhol’s early career as a commercial illustrator.Before establishing himself as a major figure in contemporary art, Warhol made his living drawing fashion advertisements, primarily shoes. His first assignment, for Glamour magazine in 1949, launched a long-standing association with the motif. Warhol once recalled that he measured his financial success by the number of shoe drawings he completed, saying, "I lived by the number of shoe drawings—when I counted them I knew how much money I had." Even though these early works were commercial in nature, series like À la Recherche du Shoe Perdu (1955) reveal how Warhol imbued each shoe with a distinct personality, often accentuated by careful hand-coloring.Even after transitioning from commercial illustration to fine art, Warhol frequently returned to shoes as a motif—an unsurprising recurrence given his fascination with glamour, beauty, and sexuality, themes central to his portraits of icons like Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Grace Kelly. The high-heeled stiletto, featured prominently in the Shoes portfolio, serves as a powerful symbol of femininity and allure, needing no celebrity figure to evoke its associations.Revisiting this subject late in his career, Warhol’s Shoes portfolio captures one of his most beloved and personal themes while also reflecting his evolving artistic practices. Moving beyond traditional illustration, Warhol now employed original Polaroid photography and his signature silkscreen process to reimagine familiar imagery. Shoes stands as a testament to both his enduring preoccupations and his innovative exploration of new materials and methods.For more information on Warhol’s Shoes (Deluxe Edition) (FS.II 248-252) complete portfolio or to buy Shoes (Deluxe Edition) (FS.II 248-252) complete portfolio, contact our galleries using the form below.
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Diamond Dust Shoes · Andy Warhol · Christie's · 2013-11 · $4,925,000

Diamond Dust Shoes · Andy Warhol · Sotheby's · 2023-10 · $5,431,520

Diamond Dust Shoes · Andy Warhol · Christie's · 2025-05 · $2,954,000


Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes F.S. II 248, (Deluxe Edition)
1980

Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes F.S. II 249 (Deluxe Edition)
1980

Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes F.S. II 250 (Deluxe Edition)
1980

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Diamond Dust Shoes F.S. II 251 (Deluxe Edition)
1980

Andy Warhol
Diamond Dust Shoes F.S. II 252, (Deluxe Edition)
1980

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The Diamond Dust Shoes Deluxe Edition stands among the most materially ambitious and financially substantial print series in Warhol's catalogue raisonné. Recent auction performance confirms exceptional market strength, with the complete set each realising GBP 3,315,000 at auction. The complete portfolio achieved identical results. By May 2025, these same works traded at USD 2,954,000, demonstrating sustained seven-figure demand across multiple sale seasons and economic conditions.
This pricing positions the Deluxe Edition in rarefied territory typically reserved for unique Warhol paintings. For context, Warhol's broader market continues setting records: Shot Sage Blue Marilyn achieved $195,040,000 at Christie's in May 2022—the highest price ever paid for a 20th-century artwork at auction. Mao prints each reached $4,648,000 at Christie's in May 2025, while Flowers prints sold for $4,076,000 and $3,832,000 at Sotheby's that same month. The Diamond Dust Shoes Deluxe Edition trades within this upper echelon, distinguished by its physical scale, material complexity, and extreme rarity.
Created in 1980, the Diamond Dust Shoes portfolio comprises screenprints executed on heavyweight Arches Aquarelle wove paper, each measuring 40 1/8 x 59 1/2 inches—a monumental format rarely attempted in Warhol's print production. The series was published by Andy Warhol and printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York.
What separates the Deluxe Edition from the standard edition is the application of actual crushed diamond dust onto the printed surface. Warhol had experimented with this material throughout the late 1970s, but the Shoes portfolio represents its most sophisticated deployment. The diamond particles catch and refract ambient light, creating a surface that shifts dramatically depending on viewing angle and illumination—an effect impossible to capture in reproduction.
The imagery itself transforms discarded women's pumps and heels into glamorous still lifes, drawing from photographs Warhol made at New York flea markets. This conceptual inversion—garbage becoming luxury through artistic intervention—resonated with the Reagan-era embrace of conspicuous consumption while maintaining Warhol's characteristic deadpan irony about commerce and desire.
The portfolio prints each present overlapping shoe silhouettes against contrasting colour fields with diamond dust application throughout.
One print features deep burgundy and black pumps against a vibrant ground, creating dramatic tonal contrast that collectors particularly favour. This work traded at GBP 3,315,000 in October 2023 and USD 2,954,000 in May 2025.
Another print presents a cooler palette with silvery tones that maximise the diamond dust's reflective properties, achieving identical prices across both recorded sales.
A third print offers warmer orange and pink tones, appealing to collectors seeking chromatic vibrancy alongside material luxury.
The remaining print completes the suite with distinct colour variations that allow collectors to select based on interior contexts or personal aesthetic preferences.
From our direct market experience, collectors acquiring individual Deluxe Edition sheets typically prioritise works with maximum colour saturation and optimal diamond dust density. The complete portfolio commands particular interest from institutions and foundations building comprehensive Warhol holdings, as acquiring all five prints together has become increasingly difficult given how rarely complete sets surface.
Every Deluxe Edition sheet bears Warhol's signature in pencil and carries edition numbering. The edition size for the Deluxe version was extremely limited compared to the standard printing, contributing directly to current valuations.
Authentication should be verified through the Andy Warhol Foundation and cross-referenced against Feldman and Schellmann's authoritative catalogue raisonné. Guy Hepner provides comprehensive provenance documentation and authentication verification with every transaction.
Condition assessment for these works requires specialised expertise. The diamond dust application presents unique conservation challenges—the particles can dislodge over time if works have been improperly stored, handled, or framed without archival standards. Collectors should examine dust density carefully, particularly at sheet edges and areas of heavy ink saturation where adhesion may vary.
Paper condition matters enormously given the large format. Arches Aquarelle is robust but not immune to handling creases, foxing, or tonal shifts from light exposure. Works maintaining bright, unfaded grounds with complete diamond dust coverage and crisp edges command significant premiums over examples showing wear or conservation issues.
Guy Hepner maintains active inventory and established collector relationships for Andy Warhol's Diamond Dust Shoes Deluxe Edition. Our 478 Warhol transactions and direct access to private collections position us to source specific works or complete portfolios based on collector requirements.
Contact our New York team to discuss current availability, pricing, and acquisition strategy for this exceptional series.
This series belongs to the vast and varied body of print and painted work Warhol produced across five decades, during which he moved fluidly between celebrity portraiture, consumer product imagery, historical appropriation, and personal or commissioned subject matter — all filtered through the same signature screenprint process that flattened the distinction between mechanical reproduction and fine art. Warhol's insistence on treating commercial printing techniques as a primary artistic medium, rather than a secondary reproductive tool, remains one of the most influential positions in postwar American art.
Warhol's work is held in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which maintains the most complete public archive of his output across all periods and subjects.

Andy Warhol prints for sale and Andy Warhol paintings for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York. Our inventory spans screenprints, silkscreens, and unique works across his most collected series: Marilyn Monroe, Campbell's Soup, Mao, Flowers, Myths, Ads, Cowboys and Indians, Dollar Signs, Cars, and Reigning Queens — all with full provenance and Feldman & Schellmann catalogue raisonné references. We also acquire Warhol. Contact our team for a free valuation.
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is the defining figure of American Pop Art and the most commercially traded artist of the twentieth century. Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh to Slovak immigrant parents, he rose from commercial illustrator to the architect of a cultural movement that permanently dissolved the boundary between fine art and mass media. His Manhattan studio, The Factory, became the epicentre of New York art and celebrity culture from the early 1960s until his death in February 1987.
Andy Warhol art for sale spans an extraordinary range of subjects, media, and price points — from intimate drawings and unique canvas paintings to large signed editions. His signature subjects include Campbell's Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, Mao Zedong, Dollar Signs, Flowers, Reigning Queens, Cowboys and Indians, the Ads portfolio, and the late Cars and Endangered Species series. Each body of work reflects his obsessive engagement with repetition, celebrity, and commodity culture.
The market benchmark for Warhol was set in May 2022 when Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold at Christie's New York for $195 million — the highest price ever achieved at auction for an American artwork. Recent print sales confirm sustained institutional demand: Mao editions achieved $4,648,000 each at Christie's in May 2025; Flowers editions achieved $4,076,000 and $3,832,000 at Sotheby's in the same season.
Andy Warhol paintings for sale — unique acrylics and silkscreens on canvas — represent the rarest and most valuable tier of his output. Subjects produced in multiple unique variations include Flowers, Skulls, Shadows, Dollar Signs, and the late Oxidation Paintings. The Rorschach series (1984) and Camouflage works appeal strongly to institutional collectors. Abstract Expressionism paintings from the late 1970s and early 1980s remain undervalued relative to his iconic print series and represent a compelling collecting opportunity.
Andy Warhol paintings require substantial documentation: exhibition history, gallery receipts, and provenance tracing to The Factory or first-generation dealers. Prices range from mid-five figures for works on paper to eight figures for major canvas paintings. Our team can advise on current pricing and condition assessment across all painting categories.
Warhol's screenprints represent the most accessible and widely collected segment of his output. Andy Warhol prints for sale range from early unsigned offset lithographs to hand-signed, numbered editions produced with Castelli Graphics, Factory Editions, and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Signed, numbered editions from key series — Marilyn Monroe (1967), Flowers (1970), Mao (1972), Ads (1985), Endangered Species (1983), Cowboys and Indians (1986), and Reigning Queens (1985) — command the strongest collector demand and the deepest secondary market liquidity.
Condition, provenance, and edition size are the critical variables. Works printed on Lenox Museum Board or high-grade rag paper with consistent registration and original colouration are the most desirable. Fading, foxing, or retouching materially affects value.
The Cars portfolio (F.S. II.356–362), produced in 1985 as a commission from Mercedes-Benz to mark the centenary of the automobile, stands among the most refined of Warhol's late print series. Ten screenprints on Lenox Museum Board render historic Mercedes-Benz models in Warhol's characteristic flat colour and photographic silkscreen technique — his iconic commercial sensibility applied to the history of industrial design. Signed and numbered in editions of 100, with separate artist's proofs, the Cars series regularly achieves $25,000–$75,000 per impression and commands significant premiums when offered as complete portfolios.
Warhol's production in the final decade of his life — broadly 1978 to 1987 — encompasses some of his most conceptually ambitious work. The Knives series (1981–82), Guns series (1981–82), and Crosses (1981–82) form a trilogy of loaded American objects rendered in the same neutral Pop vocabulary he had applied to Soup Cans twenty years earlier. The Boots and Dollar Bills paintings sit alongside late unique canvases from the Camouflage series (1986–87) and the haunting Last Supper paintings completed weeks before his death. Works from this period are systematically underrepresented in collector awareness relative to their importance to the broader catalogue and represent genuine long-term collecting opportunities.
Andy Warhol self portrait prints are among the most sought-after works in his catalogue — a subject he returned to from 1966 to 1986. The most collected examples include:
Self portrait prices range from $18,000 for early unsigned screenprints to $400,000+ for the 1978 and 1986 signed works in excellent condition. Authentication requires reference to the Feldman & Schellmann catalogue raisonné and, where applicable, a former Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board certificate.
Guy Hepner actively acquires Andy Warhol prints, paintings, and unique works from private collections. If you are looking to sell Warhol prints or seeking a current market valuation, contact our New York gallery for a confidential, no-obligation assessment. We handle all series including Marilyn, Mao, Flowers, Ads, Cowboys and Indians, Myths, Reigning Queens, and late works. Our team can advise on the most appropriate route to market and current secondary market pricing.
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