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e.e. cummings: Santa Claus - A Morality, Etchings by Calder by Alexander Calder

e.e. cummings: Santa Claus - A Morality, Etchings by Calder by Alexander Calder

e.e. cummings: Santa Claus - A Morality, Etchings by Calder

Alexander Calder

Title

e.e. cummings: Santa Claus - A Morality, Etchings by Calder

 
Artist

Alexander Calder

  1898 - 1976 (biography)
Year
1974  
Technique
9 loose-leaf etchings and typset sheets, in linen-bound clamshell box 
Image Size
approx. 18-3/4 x 13-3/4" each platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right (each) 
Edition Size
147 of 175  
Annotations
typset text throughout 
Reference
Hogblen and Watson 154; V & A 154 
Paper
heavy cream Arches wove 
State
published 
Publisher
Editions de l'Herne, Paris 
Inventory ID
JPR109 
Price
SOLD
Description

A suite of etchings that accompany the text, in both English and French translation, 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).

This loose-leaf portfolio includes 41 numbered pages, on single-fold Arches wove sheets, of typeset text (Caslon font) printed by Fequet & Baudier. Included in the text is the full one-act play by e.e. cummings, as well as a titlepage and colophon.