Patti Smith, Just Kids Illustrated Edition (Hand Signed and dated by Patti Smith), 2018

Patti Smith

Just Kids Illustrated Edition (Hand Signed and dated by Patti Smith), 2018

Hardback Monograph (Hand Signed and Inscribed by Patti Smith)

Hand signed and dated by Patti Smith

9 4/5 × 7 1/10 × 1 1/4 inches

Unframed

Provenance
Hand signed by Patti Smith for the present owner at a special book signing at the Museum of Modern Art

This beautiful hardback monograph is hand signed and dated by the artist, Patti Smith in ink on the title page.
Patti’s Smith’s exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko’s iconic billboard, Max’s Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea. The extraordinary people who passed through their lives are also pictured: Sam Shepard, Harry Smith, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. Along with never-before-published photographs, drawings, and ephemera, this edition captures a moment in New York when everything was possible. And when two kids seized their destinies as artists and soul mates in this inspired story of love and friendship.
This book contains 384 pages with numerous illustrated full color images. Especially uncommon when hand signed as the present work. Makes a terrific gift.

Book information:
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 2010
English; Hardcover; 304 pages with illustrations

Patti Smith biography:
Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe's renowned photograph, has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. She has recorded twelve albums.

Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include M Train, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor awarded to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Smith married the late Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.