Henriette Petit (

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of Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan; March 3, 1894 - December 9, 1983), was a Chilean painter, member of the Grupo Montparnasse, of which she was a co-founder.

Biography

Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan was born in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

, March 3, 1894. She began her career in the early 1910s, when she became a disciple of Juan Francisco González -considered one of the four "great masters of Chilean painting"- whom she met through her friend, the also painter, Marta Villanueva. Petit entered the School of Fine Arts in 1914, and two years later, she painted her first painting. She traveled to Europe with her family between 1920 and 1921, a period in which she had classes in

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, France, with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who would portray her in a bust entitled ''Le Chilienne'' and whose works are in the artist's museum."Enriqueta Petit (1894-1983)". ''El Mercurio''. 14 September 2010. Luis Vargas Rosas y Henriette Petit

In 1923, back in Chile, Petit joined the Montparnasse group, an avant-garde movement of influences from

Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...

and Fauvism. The group included José Perotti and the brothers Julio and

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto (October 9, 1887 – October 28, 1946) was a Chilean painter, born in Italy and raised in Chile. He was active from 1902 to 1945, in Paris and in Italy. Biography Born as Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto ...

, as well as Luis Vargas Rosas. Petit and Vargas Rosa married in 1927, with the poet

Vicente Huidobro Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...

as best man."Profunda renovación de la plástica chilena desde la segunda década del siglo» en Arte. Historia de la pintura y escultura en Chile desde la Colonia la siglo XX", ''editorial Antártica'', 1964, pp. 374-376 In 1926, Petit settled in Paris, where she continued to specialize in sketches, drawing and painting, and joined the artistic environment which she shared with, among others, the French Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger, the Spanish

Juan Gris José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic ge ...

, Joan Miró and

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, the British William Hayter and the American

Alexander Calder Alexander Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and hi ...

. In the French capital, in addition to dedicating herself to painting, she worked at the Henri-Rousselle psychiatric hospital. Petit and Vargas Rosas returned to Chile in 1941, due to

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. Petit's artistic production declined notably due to the uprooting caused by being away from France. Her last trip to the Gallic country was in 1963. Petit died in Santiago, December 9, 1983.

Works

* ''Dos desnudos'' * ''Isla de Maipo'' * ''Resignación''

References

Bibliography

* Quiroga, Samuel. "El rol de Henriette Petit en las artes visuales a comienzos del siglo XX". En: Torres, Tarik (Coordinador). ''Estudios del abordaje multidisciplinario del arte''. México: Ediciones Eón, 2017, pp. 71 – 83. (in Spanish)

External links

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