Originally from Chisinau, Lidia Arionescu-Baillayre was one of the first Romanian women to risk making an artistic career. She was the daughter of Secretary of State Ioanichie Pantelimon Arionescul and Ana Grigoriev. It is well known that in the world of visual artists, women are hardly accepted, considering that this occupation is too difficult for a gentle being like a woman.
The case of Lydia Arioenscu proves the opposite. He graduated from the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts and on September 28, 1907, was issued a certificate attesting to his studies. And even when she was seriously ill, she did not give up her brush and paintbrush and painted until the last moment of her life.
The characterization of the critic Tudor Stăvilă in the book Modern Fine Arts in Bessarabia (Chisinau, 2000) is instructive:
„... The Romanian plastic artists, who worked in this era, had a small circle of reasons and predilections for a certain way of treatment, which ultimately determines the pictorial manner of each.
L. Arionescu-Baillayre is an exception in this respect. The initial works - The Portrait of A. BAillayre and The Portrait of the Son (1900s) are a sound colour range with large and energetic touches of colour, reminiscent, by treatment, of the canvases of F. Maleavin. A special pictorial mastery marks the portrait of A. Baillayre, which is imposed by its compositional originality and special colour effects. But in Portrait of Women (1904) and Static Nature (1900), the painter uses the plastic processes of expression characteristic of French neo-impressionists.”
She was the wife of the painter Auguste Baillayre and they married in October 1907. They travelled to the Netherlands, where he studied. Hence the opening for modern art. She was a student in an academic school, but her contact with the developed artistic environment substantially changed her artistic criteria. If her death had not been premature, in time we would have discovered an author with an avant-garde spirit.
She was the mother of the painter Tatiana Baillayre, born on December 13, 1910, in St. Petersburg, and she is a remarkable artist in Romanian fine arts.
On October 18, 1912, in Tsarskoe Selo she gave birth to Dumitru, and on March 13, 1918, in Chisinau, she gave birth to Marina.
The source of the information is the book In this world there are women ... by the historian and researcher Iurie Colesnic
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