Sweet Adolescents [Nenè]

N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the German release of the 1977 Italian film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, with text in German.

From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.

Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene, befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Salvador Dali, and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Based on the 1976 novel by Cesare Lanza, about an orphaned 15-year-old white girl's sexual relationship with a local mixed-race boy.

Set in postwar Italy.

7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus, with a single cropping annotation in manuscript pencil on the far right edge of the recto.

[Book #162067]