Mariette Lydis (1890-970) was an Austrian draftsman and printmaker active in France. Lydis was born as Marietta Ronsperger. In 1922 she married Jean Lydis but left him for the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. A few years later she left Bontempelli and in 1928 she married art publisher Comte Giuseppi Govone. During the 1930s she was quite successful in Paris, starting with a solo show at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune, and then becoming a member and a juror at the Salon d’Automne. When the Nazis invaded France, Lysis fled the country and took refuge in the town of Winchcombe, before making her way to Buenos Aires. She lived in Argentina for the rest of her life. Her prints, hand-colored dry points, etchings and aquatints are known for their apparent sexuality and danger.
Resources Cited:
Getty Online - Union List of Artist Names Online
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Lydis%2C+Mariette&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500042934
Idbury Prints
https://www.idburyprints.com/index.php?page=artist_view_details.php&arid=128
Lithograph by Mariette Lydis titled, "Mrs. Trapes" part of series "Beggars Opera". Shows older woman in dress shop storefront with arms folded and standing next to a dog. Dated 1936. Lydis, Mariette - Austrian, born in Vienna in 1894. Address in 1935 was Paris, France. Lithographs of the "Beggars Opera" as follows: "Mrs Trapes" "The Beggar" "Mrs. Peachum" "Peachum" "Four Women" "Jenny Diver & Svky Tawdry" "Dance of the Prisoners" "Captain Macheath" "Macheath’s Gang II" "Player and Beggar" Reference: Austrian, born in Vienna in 1894. Dictionnaire biographique des artists.
Date: 1936
Engraving, or Lithograph, by Mariette Lydis. titled, "Mrs. Peachum" part of series "Beggars Opera". Shows older woman with hands folded.
Date: 1936.
Lithograph titled, "The Beggar" in the series "Beggar’s Opera." Image features a large, strange man with a one leg replaced by a peg leg and the other leg in bandages. A gallows with a hanged figure appears in the background.
Date: 1936
Lithograph titled "Peachum" in the series "Beggar’s Opera." Image of a man with a book and what appears to be a small chain in one hand. The image of the book bears a small inscription from Lydis about the image, including her address and "I hope you will like it."
Date: 1936
Lithograph titled "Juana" of a young woman with a turkey. Matted and unframed. Artist’s signature in pencil at bottom left. Lydis, Mariette - Austrian, Born in Vienna in 1894, address in 1935 was Paris, France. "Juana" = an original lithograph presented in a limited edition as a special publication of The Society of Print Connoisseurs, Alexandria, Virginia. Reference: Dictionnaire bibliographique des artists.
Lithograph titled, "Four Women" in the series "Beggar’s Opera." Image is of four women in various modes of dress, each with an infant. Matted and unframed.
Date: 1936
Lithograph by Mariette Lydis entitled "Captain Macheath" in the series "Beggar’s Opera." Lithograph depicts a well-dressed man with a curtain and buildings in the background..
Date: 1936
Date: 1936
Lithograph titled "Player and Beggar" in the "Beggar’s Opera" series. Image features an actor in a beaked costume with what appears to be a horse in the foreground and a beggar in the background. Matted and unframed.
Date: 1936
Lithograph titled, "Jenny Diver and Suky Tawdry" in the "Beggar’s Opera" series. Image of two women, one holding a glass and appearing to be topless and the other at least semi-topless. Two figures holding rifles appear in the background. Matted and unframed.
Date: 1936
Lithograph by Mariette Lydis entitled "Dance of the Prisoners" in the series "Beggar’s Opera." The lithograph depicts many prisoners leaning against each other. Some of the prisoners have a ball and chain attached to their ankle, and the prisoners are located in a room with a small, tied rope encircling a wooden beam.
Date: 1936