Mariette Lydis (1887-1970) – Young Girl - Numbered And Signed Lithograph - 1938

Mariette Lydis (1887-1970) – Young girl-numbered and signed lithograph-1938Color lithograph on vellum paper, printed by the prestigious Mourlot lithographic printing house.

Signed in pencil lower right and annotated “VIII”
numbered in pencil 10/200 lower leftsheet
dimensions: 31.5 × 23 cm.
at sight: 29.5 x 21
with frame: 41.5 x 32

Mariette Lydis, born Marietta Ronsperger in 1887, Viennese artist who settled in Paris in the interwar period, distinguished herself as a painter, draftsman and lithographer. She is particularly renowned for her delicate female portraits, where the finesse of the line and the subtlety of the colors express an intimate atmosphere, often marked by melancholy. This 1938 print belongs to a series created to illustrate Henri de Montherlant's novel Les Jeunes Filles, published in Paris by the luxury Govone publishing house. It reflects the artist's most productive Parisian period, just before his departure for Argentina, and perfectly illustrates his refined style, sometimes similar to that of Foujita or Tamara de Lempicka.