“The Met Shopping Bag” BLUE Ceramic Bag Metropolitan Museum of Art Rudy Deharak

"The Met Shopping Bag" by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Handpainted, Rudy DeHarak Style: 06-012844-4 (Blue) Resin As fresh as when it first appeared in the last 1970s, the eye-catching shopping bag from the Metropolitan Museum of Art has become an American icon. Over 1,000,000 bags are printed every year, making it one of the most visible symbols of the largest repository of art in the Western hemisphere. Rudy De Harak's award-winning design for the bag was introduced to coincide with the opening of the New Art Publication Center, now referred to as "the Bookshop," off the Museum's Great Hall. Its three bold colors--blue, yellow, and red---represent the elemental pigments for color printing: cyan, yellow and magenta. The Museum's Met Shopping bag miniature is hand painted, and can be used as a pencil holder, a gift sack, or a party gavor holder. To clean, wipe with a dry cloth. This listing is the for 1 BLUE resin bag miniature as shown. Condition: excellent preowned condition, used for display only, no chips or cracks