Chris Ritter Mid-Century Pastel and Watercolor Drawing of Wounded Lion leather covered waverly cigarette tin and to my eye just

and to my eye just perfectly aged and worn

but full of personality

The signature is close to the one Mårtensson used she to sign her ceramics

and for the hand-coloring done on many

Chris Ritter Mid-Century Pastel and Watercolor Drawing of Wounded Lion leather covered waverly cigarette tin and to my eye justPainter, printmaker, educator, and gallerist Chris Ritter (1906 1976), who made this large drawing I believe in the 1950s or so, was a fascinating character and important figure in the New York Postwar Avant Garde scene, whose work is represented in the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Public Library, and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as many other collections. (More bio below.) I purchased