Female Portrait (1926 körül)

She studied at the College of Fine Arts under István Réti, then in Paris. In 1924 and 1926, she was awarded prizes at the competition of the Szinyei Society. In 1930 she reported on Parisian fashion for the Esti Kurir, and in 1932 she married Endre Spitz, and according to the marriage news, she was still in Paris at the time. 

Leicht Lilly's portrait shows the influence of her master, Réti, in terms of the (patchwork, soft) style of painting and fits in with the classicist trend that ran through the art of Europe between the two world wars. Some artists sought harmony, permanence and links with tradition after the horrors and extreme emotions of war. The circle that formed around István Szőnyi, the Arcadian painters and later the Roman School artists represented the neoclassical trend in Hungary. Leicht's female figure, like a modern Madonna, looks at the viewer with a sad serenity, her head shaped like a delicate 's'.