Juana

 

Mariette Lydis

  1887 - 1970 (biography)

1947  

lithograph 

13 x 10 1/8" image 

pencil, lower left; in stone, lower left 

not stated, ca. 200 

blindstamped: The Society of Print Connoiseurs 

Print Survey: A Review of Recent Fine Prints, Alfred Fowler, Spring 1947, vol. 1, no. 3, illustrated page 62. Fowler wrote about this lithograph on page 70. 

cream wove 

published 

The Society of Print Connoisseurs (blindstamp in lower left margin) 

16992 

$500.00 

Regarding Juana, Fowler wrote (see page 70 of Print Survey): Juana’s pensive face is beautifully drawn. It possesses all of the fine lyrical qualities of the recent portraits by Mariette Lydis. Her deft and sure crayon has given it an expression to which each brings his own interpretation. The earlier prints made by Mariette Lydis when she lived in Europe were usually light and gay but her reaction to the war has profoundly affected her work and given us such distinctive character studies such as this new print.