Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern I love the graphics on

I love the graphics on this old Playtime deck of miniature playing cards

snake-like one is a very old drafting brush

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

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

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern I love the graphics onThis 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