Henriette Petit
Henriette Petit (aka Ana Enriqueta Petit Marfan ; born March 3, 1894 in Santiago de Chile ; † December 9, 1983 there ) was a Chilean painter.
The daughter of a doctor from France came into contact with painting through her friend Marta Villanueva , whom she introduced to Juan Francisco González . She entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes in 1914 and was a student of González until 1919.
In 1921/22 she traveled to Paris with her family . There she visited the studio of the sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle and stood there as a model for a bronze head that is now in the possession of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes . After her return to Chile she was one of the first members of the avant-garde Grupo Montparnasse, alongside Luis Vargas Rosas , José Perotti and the brothers Julio and Manuel Ortiz de Zárate .
In 1925 she returned to Paris, where she joined the circle of avant-garde artists around Juan Gris , William Hayter, Pablo Picasso , Le Corbusier , Georges Braque , Fernand Léger , Alexander Calder , Joan Miró , Stanley William Hayter and others. The most important part of her painterly work was created in Paris.
In 1926 she married Luis Vargas Rosas, with whom she also worked artistically. She also worked for the mentally ill at the Rouselle Hospital . Because of the German occupation of France , she returned to Chile in 1941. After that she was only sporadically active as a painter. The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes organized an exhibition of her works in 1996/97 under the title Reactivando la Memoria: Henriette Petit (1894–1983) . The Chilean Post issued two stamps with the artist's motifs.
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| SURNAME | Petit, Henriette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petit Marfan, Ana Enriqueta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1983 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |