1925 Mariette Lydis gilded offset lithograph, goat, portrait, framed art, Art Deco

Scarce 1925 gilded print with gold lithographic overlay by Austrian artist Mariette Lydis. Captivating Art Deco depiction of a goat from her publication “Orientalisches Traumbuch” (Oriental Dream Book), with accompanying prose in German on the reverse. Curious and significant artwork, framed with solid gold wood and mounted behind glass. Excellent condition as shown!

31cm x 25cm frame

11cm 16cm 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.”