Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern and I've looked at a

and I've looked at a fair number and sold a number of them

I believe in pencil

paint brushes

This is the most beautiful old school slate I believe I have ever seen

and those great rounded ears and big front paws--and also how she appears to be keeping a close watch on things even while seeming luxuriously relaxed

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern and I've looked at aThis 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