Pencil Drawing of a young woman leaning forward with outstretched hands

by Mariette Lydis

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Signed

Signed lower left Marette Lydis Paris 1935 . 1 vols. 7-3/4 x 5-3/4 inches. Very good. From the Autograph Album of Alfred Eisenstaedt. Item #40443 Painter, engraver, illustrator, Lydis owed her famed chiefly to her color prints and to her illustrations. Engraver with a delicate top, strangely similar to Foujita but without a hint of morbidity, she successfully realized delicate harmonies of colors, or shades. She illustrated a number

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