Title
Untitled - The Child (from the portfolio "Santa Claus - A Morality", nine etchings to accompany e.e. cummings' play)
Artist
Year
1974
Technique
etching
Image Size
18 3/4 x 13 3/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
147 of 175
Annotations
pencil editioned, lower left
Reference
Hogblen and Watson 154; V & A 154
Paper
heavy cream Arches wove
State
published
Publisher
Editions de l'Herne, Paris
Inventory ID
JPR109h
Price
SOLD
Description
The eighth plate from the suite of etchings created to accompany the text, in both English and French, from e.e. cummings' most successful one-act play, "Santa Claus" (1946). “The play is an allegory in which Death and Santa Claus exchange masks, but a child sees through the masks to the true identity of each. Death is equated with Science, which ‘can sell people anything -- except understanding.’ In the end, Santa Claus, who is a young man beneath his mask, reveals himself to the child and her mother” (from: Spring, A Journal of the e.e. cummings Society).