Acc. № 183 · Archive reference image
Design Objects № 183
Le Père Chaos
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A French-language Christmas insurgency poster from December 1963, depicting an anarchist Father Christmas figure wielding a megaphone and armed with a sack of dynamite. The tagline—'Inconnu. Sauvage. Libre.'—and subtitle 'L'Esprit de Noël Rebelle' suggest a deliberately subversive holiday campaign that never materialized, possibly suppressed during the De Gaulle era. Letterpress aesthetic with crude registration and weathered surfaces implies clandestine production. Collectors of Cold War counter-culture, French graphic dissent, and impossible holiday ephemera.
Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.
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
- Design Objects
- Style
- Letterpress propaganda, woodcut aesthetic, Cold War graphic design
- Mood
- seditious, uncanny, defiant
- Palette
- cream, maroon, black
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