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Manuel Ortíz de Zárate

Manuel Revuelta Ortíz de Zárate Pinto (9 October 1887 – 28 October 1946) was an Italian-born Chilean painter active in France.[1][2]

Manuel Ortíz de Zárate
Ortíz photographed by Karel Kleijn, c. 1935
Born
Manuel Revuelta Ortíz de Zárate Pinto

(1887-10-09)9 October 1887
Como, Kingdom of Italy
Died28 October 1946(1946-10-28) (aged 59)
Los Angeles, California, US
EducationÉcole des Beaux-Arts
OccupationPainter
Years active1902 to 1945
Spouse
Jadwiga Piechowska
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(died 1944)​
Children2, including
Laure Lourié
RelativesEugène Lourié (son-in-law)
FamilyPinto family

Biography

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Ortiz was born 9 October 1887 in Como, Kingdom of Italy (present-day, Italy) to Eliodoro Ortíz de Zárate (1865–1953), a composer, and María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz.[1][3][4] Through his mother Ortíz was a member of the Pinto family.[2] One of three siblings, Ortíz was the younger brother of painter Julio Ortíz de Zárate [es].[1][3][5]

Ortíz was born whilst his father was studying at the Milan Conservatory.[2][4] In 1891, aged four, Ortíz's family returned to Chile.[1] He went on to study painting with Pedro Lira, before entering the Escuela de Bellas Artes (Academy of Fine Arts) in Santiago.

At age 15, he fled home and stowed away on a ship to Italy.[2] He studied painting in Rome, before being drawn to the burgeoning art scene in France, he made his way to Paris. There, he became part of the growing gathering of artists in the Montparnasse Quarter, making friends with Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Léonard Foujita, and some of the other future greats of the art world.[6][7]

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, developing his modernist skills in the painting of still lifes and landscapes. In 1916, he became Picasso's art assistant.[7] Between 1920 until 1940, Ortiz de Zárate showed his work at the Salon d’Automne, an annual art exhibition in Paris, France.[8] Together with Camilo Mori and other artists from Chile, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate helped found the Grupo Montparnasse.[7] During World War II, he remained in France despite the German occupation. After the war, he went to the United States where he died in 1946 in Los Angeles, California.

Personal life

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Ortíz was married to Jadwiga Piechowska[a] (1885–1944), a Polish painter.[2][9][10] Ortíz and Piechowska had two children, including the costume designer Laure Lourié (née Ortiz de Zárate). Ortíz was the father-in-law of Eugène Lourié, and the former father-in-law of John Ferren.[11][12][13]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Francized as Edwige Piechowska

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Manuel Ortíz de Zárate". Artistas Visuales Chilenos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Klüver, Billy (1999). A Day with Picasso. MIT Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-262-61147-3.
  3. 1 2 "Julio Ortíz de Zárate". Fundación Casa de los Diez (in Spanish). Santiago Chile: Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Eliodoro Ortiz de Zárate (1865–1953)". Antología de la Canción de Arte Chilena (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Alberto Hurtado University. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  5. ↑ Subercaseaux, Bernardo (1997). Historia de las ideas y de la cultura en Chile (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria. p. 19. ISBN 978-956-11-1707-5.
  6. ↑ "Back in favour: Japanese master who outshone Picasso in 1920s Paris". the Guardian. 15 April 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  7. 1 2 3 Rodríguez, Juan (12 February 2017). "Los chilenos que frecuentaron el círculo de Pablo Picasso" [The Chileans who frequented Pablo Picasso's circle]. Economia y Negocios online (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  8. ↑ Greet, Michele (6 June 2017). "An International Proving Ground : Latin American Artists at the Paris Salons". Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos. Nouveaux Mondes Mondes Nouveaux - Novo Mundo Mundos Novos - New World New Worlds. doi:10.4000/nuevomundo.70847. ISSN 1626-0252.
  9. ↑ Idmhand, Fatiha. "Manuel ORTÍZ de ZÁRATE : le compagnon de Montparnasse". Musée Picasso Paris (in French). Paris, France. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  10. ↑ Krebs, Sophie (2018). "ORTIZ DE ZARATE Manuel". In Léal, Brigitte (ed.). Brigitte Léal (in French). Paris, France: Robert Laffont. ISBN 9782221238783.
  11. ↑ "Laure Lourié (née Ortiz de Zárate)". National Portrait Gallery Collections. London: National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  12. ↑ "LAURE DE ZARATE LOURIÉ". Le Monde (in French). Paris, France. 10 February 2001. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  13. ↑ "John Ferren papers, 1927–1969". Archives of American Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
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