Alexander Calder "São Paolo" Tote

This heavyweight cotton canvas tote bag features Alexander Calder's São Paolo (1955), with his signature screen-printed on a satin label on the lower back.

• 100% heavyweight cotton canvas, black cotton lining
• Interior zippered pocket, webbed double handles
• Main compartment: 17" x 18" (46 x 62 cm)
• Made in China
• Spot clean
  

Calder, who incorporated discarded and found materials into his work throughout his career, painted São Paulo (1955) on plywood recycled from a shipping crate. The plywood sheet was originally used as a rigid board to latch down a mobile for safe transportation to the artist’s solo show at the 1953 II Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo. Upon close inspection, the holes that were drilled to tie down the mobile can be seen.

São Paulo, 1955
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