LONDON, ENGLAND.- Coskun announces the launch of their new galleries at 91 Walton Street with a series of works by Andy Warhol ranging from Pink sparkling Shoes to Pink Marilyn. Andy Warhol succeeded almost single-handedly in resurrecting grand-style portraiture of people important, glamorous, notorious or rich enough – whether statesman, actresses, or wealthy patrons of the arts – to warrant leaving their human traces in the history of painting. His representation of these subjects evinces a ring of commonplace truth that we recognize from the newspapers and glossy magazines that disseminated their fame; and it is this facet of Warhol’s, his remarkable ability to elevate seemingly ordinary images, that has, for the 21st Century viewer, achieved a level of recognition that is even greater than those he depicted. One can view at the exhibition portraits from Marilyn to Prince to Reagan to Lenin.

As well as portraiture, it was the women’s shoes that Warhol had a fascination from as early as 1950s when he was working for I. Miller. Already a stylish and successful commercial artist in 1955, Warhol was offered the I. Miller account by Geraldine Stutz. Immediately, his whimsical and inventive shoe drawings became the talk of the town. But, it was in the 1980s that Warhol created oversized Shoe canvases sparkling with diamond dust.