Shoe Lover

1992

Lorna Simpson

Associated Names
Lorna Simpson

Artist, American, born 1960

This is a photograph of three separate frames. The first frame on the left features a black closed box against a brown background, with the text "female attraction" in yellow-orange letters. The center frame shows the back of a person in a light blue-gray suit jacket against the same background. The right frame displays a pair of high-heeled shoes with sparkling embellishments, placed symmetrically and facing away, beneath the text "attract females" in bold yellow-orange letters.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    3 dye diffusion transfer prints (Polacolor) and 2 plastic plaques

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 60.96 × 48.26 cm (24 × 19 in.)
    sheet (each): 69.22 × 55.88 cm (27 1/4 × 22 in.)
    plate: 7.62 × 44.45 cm (3 × 17 1/2 in.)
    overall installed: 88.9 × 335.28 × 3.81 cm (35 × 132 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.170.1.a-e

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Polaroid Collection, New York; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 2010, lot 202); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on print verso, lower right corner of all three prints, in black ink: Lorna Simpson '92; by unknown hand: L. Simpson 92:3120:06

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