Calder "Untitled 1953" Top Handle Tote

This heavyweight cotton canvas tote bag features Calder's gouache made into an all-over print, with contrasting green nylon handles and tag featuring Calder's signature, and an interior zippered pocket.

• Heavyweight Cotton Canvas
• Lined in black cotton poplin with an interior zippered pocket
  
• Webbed double handles
  
• Main compartment measures 17x18 inches (46x62 cm)
  
• Spot clean
• Made in China

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 space for paintings on paper. As 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.” Calder also made high-contrast, monochromatic illustrations in ink with crosshatched stripes.

 Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1953
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