Jean de la Fontaine Selected Fables Illustrated by Alexander Calder, 1957 handmade figures which can make them very

which can make them very naughty

with two tiny dots for a nose

Signed Italy and numbered on the bottom

done on the back of an advertisement for a shredded wheat sponsored drawing content

and roughly translating to the English expression pork barrel) was an illustrated French weekly satirical magazine with anarchist political leanings that was chiefly produced between 1901 and 1912

Jean de la Fontaine Selected Fables Illustrated by Alexander Calder, 1957 handmade figures which can make them veryI was just saw a beautiful Alexander Calder show at Moma and have had Calder on the brain, so was delighted to find this one this weekend, which I think is pure joy. Jean de La Fontaine (1621 95) collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse, publishing these in several volumes from 1668 to 1694, which became classics of French literature. For this book published by George Brazilier,