1930's AUSTRIAN - ARGENTINE LITHOGRAPH BY MARIETTE LYDIS

Beautiful Portrait of an Unknown Woman Original Gold Frame, Signed Mariette Lydis Dimensions: 14.5" wide x 17 3/4" Tall Artist work has been presented by the Contemporary At Society Due to this item being fragile, please contact us at allybanks@me.com for a personalized shipping quote.  Mariette Ronsberger Lydis (1887–1970) was an Austrian-Argentine painter. Lydis was born in Vienna, Austria on August 24, 1887, under the name Marietta Ronsperger. She was the third child of Jewish merchants, Franz Ronsperger and Eugenia Fischer, and the sister of Richard and Edith Ronsperger, creator of Opera books who later died by suicide. Mariette first married Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy in 1910. She eventually divorced Julius and married Jean Lydis in 1918 to whom she remained married until 1925. In 1928 she married Giuseppe Govone, an art publisher, and formally remained married to him until his death in 1948. However, at the end of the 30s she escaped Paris and the ensuing Nazi roundup of J