Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl The translucent green marble eyes

The translucent green marble eyes

including at the Art Institute of Chicago

with bright orange body

marked sterling on back

Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl The translucent green marble eyesI 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