Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising I love how this tiny

I love how this tiny carved woman stands in what is almost the classical Venus Pudica position

and cut tin fins--silver on the body

woven I believe with a wool weft on a cotton warp

or perhaps even birds

2 1/4" wide

Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising I love how this tinyI have a vague notion that this drawing may have been done by Swedish artist Beata Mrtensson (1880 1956), who was best known as the first female artist at Gustavsberg porcelain factory, 19081910, where she designed bowls, vases and tableware. She then moved to Paris and later lived in New York, which is when in my theory would guess she did this, before returning to Sweden in 1953. The signature is close to the one Mrtensson used she to sign her