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Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s antique Indian While there is a fairThis 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