Calder Foundation

Untitled (Santa Claus IV)

Date 1974
Media
Etching
Dimensions
26" × 20"
Publisher
One of nine etchings from the unbound illustrated book Santa Claus by E.E. Cummings. Published by Editions de l'Herne/Collection "L'oeil écoute," Paris, 1974.
Printer
Printed by Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris
Edition size
Total edition of 175 / Examples 1 to 25, signed and numbered, on grand vélin d'Arches, accompanied by two groups of etchings, one on Arches and the other on Auvergne à la main du Moulin Richard-de-Bas / Examples 26 to 100, signed and numbered, on grand vélin d'Arches, accompanied by the suite of etchings on Auvergne à la main du Moulin Richard-de-Bas / Examples 101 to 175, signed and numbered, on grand vélin d'Arches, accompanied by the suite of etchings on vélin d'Arches
Works / Print 70
Related Timeline
1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.