Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising The hinges are in good

The hinges are in good shape

and quite striking

or perhaps even birds

woven I believe with a wool weft on a cotton warp

and cut tin fins--silver on the body

Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata banded incising The hinges are in goodI 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