(AVANT GARDE CZECH MODERNIST) Sutnar Ladislav The Strip Stre

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(AVANT-GARDE, CZECH MODERNIST.) Sutnar, Ladislav. "The Strip Street." 12 silk-screen prints, 558x355 mm; 22x14 inches. Folio, introduction/colophon sheet mounted to thick paper and prints loose in paper folding portfolio, some wear. New York, 1963

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one of only twenty-five portfolios. from the sutnar family collection. An album of 12 erotic silk-screen prints inspired by Sutnar's days in the 1940s on East 52nd Street in New York City. "What was generally a quiet street in daylight, became transformed every night after eleven into the famous strip street known far and wide as the sexiest place in town"--from the Introduction. Sutnar continued to explore this theme during the 60s and 70s; he organized two New York gallery exhibitions of his nudes, In Pursuit of Venus (1966) and Venus: Joy-Art (1969).