Cat. № POSTER-180 · Archive reference image
Urban Legends № 180
Le Père Chaos
Available · one owner onlyArchive note
A French-language agitprop poster from December 1963, depicting an anarchist Father Christmas figure wielding a megaphone and bearing gifts of dynamite. The tagline—'Unknown. Savage. Free. December 1963'—and subtitle 'The Spirit of Rebel Christmas' suggest this was circulated during a moment of radical political ferment in France, possibly connected to leftist resistance movements or surrealist interventions in holiday culture. The woodcut aesthetic and stark black-and-red palette echo Soviet constructivism filtered through Parisian underground print traditions. Recovered from a private collection of French protest ephemera; appeals to historians of May '68 precursor imagery and collectors of subversive Christmas iconography.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
1536 × 2752 px · 4.2 MP · portrait
- Section
- Urban Legends
- Style
- Soviet constructivist woodcut, political agitprop
- Mood
- militant, subversive, uncanny
- Palette
- cream, dark red, black
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