Rare 1925 gilded print by Austrian artist Mariette Lydis. Captivating depiction of an ornate mandala style zodiac from her publication “Orientalisches Traumbuch” (Oriental Dream Book). Curious and significant artwork, framed with solid wood and double custom mount behind glass.25cm x 27cm frame 10cm x 10cm artwork “Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) was an Austrian-Argentine printmaker who worked primarily in lithographs. She also worked in pencil, watercolor, charcoal, etching, and oil, producing prints, illuminated lithographic illustrations of stories and poetry, hand-colored drypoints, etchings, aquatints, drawings, and paintings. Her works rely heavily on the use of line, emphasizing illustration over decoration.Lydis drew inspiration from Koran decoration and decorated Korans herself. Much of her portraiture features young women, including the lithograph Les Paradis artificiels (16 works, 1955), the pencil-and-watercolor drawing Iris (1940), and the oil paintings Jeune femme de profil (1933), Portrait de jeune fille (1955), and Jovencita (1950). Lydis also based some of her works, including Les Criminelles, on prisons and condemned French women. She was influenced heavily by the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita, her friend in Montmartre.”
