Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s pot with face and ears Some marks are incised on

Some marks are incised on the bottom

held in place by clusters of fat nails

This Saltillo

and a bit of staining on his nude jumper and long hat

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s pot with face and ears Some marks are incised 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