Alexander Calder "Kiki" Cabana Shirt

This 100% viscose cabana shirt features Alexander Calder's wire portrait Kiki de Montparnasse II (1930) embroidered onto the back panel, with the artist's signature embroidered on the sleeve. Calder's sculptures are intended to be viewed from different angles, and we chose to render this element with two colors of embroidery slightly offset. 

• 100% Viscose
• Unisex (adult size XS to L)
• Relaxed Fit
• Made in Portugal
• Machine wash delicate, inside out, do not bleach, do not iron design

In the 1920s, Calder developed a new method of sculpting - by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space. In these unprecedented massless sculptures, Calder carved expressive lines from void. Kiki de Montparnasse II is one of three portraits in wire that Calder made of the avant-garde muse, who posed for many of the best-known artists of her day including Picabia and Man Ray. Calder’s first portrait of Kiki was executed in his Paris studio in May 1929—an improvisatory event filmed by Pathé Cinema for Montparnasse–Where the Muses Hold Sway. His final one was the severely abstract Féminité (c. 1930), in which the line essentially became the subject.

Kiki de Montparnasse II, 1930
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