Alexander Calder "Untitled (1953)" All-Over Print Tote

This heavyweight cotton canvas tote bag features Alexander Calder's gouache Untitled (1953) interpreted as an all-over print, with contrasting green handles and a tag with the artist's signature and an interior zippered pocket.

• 100% Heavyweight Cotton Canvas, cotton lining, Nylon handles
• Interior zippered pocket, webbed double handles
• Main compartment: 17" x 18" (46 x 62 cm)
  
• Made in China
• Spot clean only

Although celebrated for his work in three dimensions, Calder was also a prodigious painter. In 1953 he spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, where he set up a makeshift studio for paper paintings. Calder recalled, “I would moisten the paper with a flow of water and wait till it dried a bit but not too much; then I would draw on it with a brush full of China ink—this would develop clouds and trees and fungi and things of that nature.” He also made high-contrast, monochromatic illustrations in ink with crosshatched stripes.

Untitled, 1953
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