YVONNE -HERZIG exvoto to Bou Saada Algerian woman

Large and beautiful pastel by Yvonne Herzig . Located on verso
Biography :

Yvonne Kleiss-Herzig is the daughter of painter Édouard Herzig. She studied at the Lycée Delacroix in Algiers, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers under Léon Cauvy.
In 1912, she won the Prix de la Ville d'Alger (awarded unanimously by the jury) and a scholarship to continue her studies in Paris. In 1913, her father moved to Paris to support the artistic education of his two daughters, and Yvonne received a scholarship from the Algerian government (renewed). She studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, Paul Follot and decorator Eugène Grasset throughout the Great War, until the end of 1918, when she returned to Algiers.
In 1920, she won a mention at the Salon des artistes français, and became a publishing illustrator. She also won the Grand Prix artistique de l'Algérie in 1928, and in 1933 became the wife of Hans Kleiss, another Orientalist painter.
Yvonne Kleiss-Herzig was an artist renowned for her watercolor drawings and engravings, whose themes included animals, plants and landscapes, but above all scenes of rural life in Kabylia and the Tlemcen region, and ethnic portraits, the latter works particularly sought-after by collectors for their freshness and sensitivity with remarkable strokes.
She also spent several years working for the Pasteur Institute, researching and illustrating scorpions in North Africa. In 1952, she moved to Sidi Slimane in Morocco, where she painted Moroccan women, genre scenes and views of Meknes and the surrounding region, returning to mainland France in the late 1950s.
born 1895 in Tizi Ouzou- 1968 Mougins
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