Large fabric bag

Louise Bourgeois Tote Bag depicting the work 'Untitled 1986'. The artist is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable and influential female artists of the past hundred years. Watercolor, ink, oil, charcoal and pencil on paper. 100% cotton canvas

Louise Bourgeois is an American sculptor, painter and printmaker of French birth. She moved to New York in 1938 and during World War II she worked with Joan Miró, André Masson and other European expatriates. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists, she never became an abstract artist. Instead, she created symbolic objects and drawings expressing themes of loneliness and conflict, frustration and vulnerability. Bourgeois’ first sculptures were narrow wooden pieces, such as Sleeping Figure (1950; New York, MOMA), a ‘stick' figure articulated into four parts with two supporting poles. Bourgeois soon began using non-traditional media, with rough works in latex and plaster contrasting with her elegantly worked pieces in wood, bronze and marble. In the 1960s and 1970s her work became more sexually explicit. The Tate Modern had a major retrospective of seventy years of her work in 2007-2008. Maman (1999) a ribbed bronze sculpture which resembles a spider, sold for $10.7 million in 2011, making this the highest price paid for a work by a woman artist.

Tate galleries are renowned for holding the world’s finest collection of British Art, from 1500 to the present day, and a leading collection of International Modern and Contemporary Art. Originally founded in 1897, Tate is now made up of four galleries: Tate Britain (1897) Tate Liverpool (1988) Tate St Ives(1993) and the iconic Tate Modern (2000). Tate produces exclusive merchandise for their exhibitions as well as commissioning artists and designers to create wide array of unique products ranging from greeting cards to jewelry, including homeware, t-shirts, art materials and textiles. Tate is also a leading publisher on the visual arts, publishing its own award-winning books since 1911. Along with its range of books on art, they also publish innovative and creative illustrated books for children and adults. All profits from the merchandise and publishing go to support the galleries in their ambition to increase the public knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of art.