An edition of Criminelles
(1927)
Criminelles
24 eaux-fortes
by Mariette Lydis
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24 etched plates depicting fictitious female criminals, predominantly murderers. Each illustration accompanied by a letterpress caption pasted below, imitating a newspaper report on the prisoner. The names, likenesses, and crimes described were all inventions of Mariette Lydis.
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Female offenders in art, Criminals in artPeople
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Cover title.
Introduction signed by Pierre MacOrlan.
" ... soixante quinze exemplaires ... tous ... sont signés par l'artiste"--Page [4].
Leaves laid into brown linen board portfolio with a prison window with bars cut into the front board and chains in place of clasps.
Mariette married Jean Lydis in 1922; in 1928 she married Comte Giuseppi Govone in Paris.
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