Crazy Spanish Girls / Muchachas Espanola Loca

Tina Lhotsky

New York

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Tina Lhotsky

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1978

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First Edition. Signed by Author

30cm x 23cm. [28] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.

Self published artist book by New York personality, actress, writer, and filmmaker Tina L’Hotsky (1951-2008). Features nude photographs of women, some with paintovers, accompanied by short fictions, and with a portrait photo of the artist. L’Hotsky was the self proclaimed queen of the Mudd Club, an iconic New York venue in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and was for a time the lover of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who nicknamed her Big Pink, and is portrayed by Courtney Love in the 1996 film Basquiat. Numbered edition of 1,000 copies of which this is number 828, signed by L’Hotsky to the verso of the wrappers front panel.

Moderate handling wear with minor creasing and a 0.5cm closed tear to the fore-edge of wrappers front panel. The original printed price has been crossed out and a new price written in ink. Good Condition.