Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s mid-century ashtray and did a very beautiful

and did a very beautiful job

MA in a house filled to the brim with a lifetime's accumulation with all sorts of wonderful things

giving it strength and a nice sheen

All of these are antique and have certainly been around

but it's in very good shape

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s mid-century ashtray and did a very beautifulThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, and always surprising. This one certainly calls the drawings of Paul Klee to mind, but feels to me really fresh and immediate I can just imagine the young artist standing before these two young men on a New York sidewalk, buying her fresh fish and bananas! The colored pencil used