Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s pot with face and ears while the neck and lower

while the neck and lower half are painted a very pale blue

The color is a nice warm caramel and the box is in great shape

making them great for playing on the go

held in place by clusters of fat nails

I believe made of celluloid

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s pot with face and ears while the neck and lowerThis 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