Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples then a drawer with brass

then a drawer with brass pull on the lower half

with a silver toned finish on the flower'shaped push-tip and grip

white and a lighter green

These plates were purchased from the estate of a prominent choreographer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

elegant lines and the perfect green glaze

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples then a drawer with brassThis 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 subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in