Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern and those great rounded ears

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

This piece I believe is a portion of an antique Middle Eastern camel saddle bag

Believed to have shape-shifting qualities and called upon in ritual in order to clarify visions

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

paint brushes

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern and those great rounded earsThis 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