Marie Anne Antoinette Hélène Peretti (13 December 1927 – 25 April 2022) was a French-Brazilianartist.[1]
Biography
Peretti was born in Paris. Her mother was the French model Antoinette Louise Clotilde Ruffier and her father was João de Medeiros Peretti, a Brazilian historian. In France, Peretti studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Still in France, she illustrated various books and magazines and made her first exposition.[1][2]
Peretti has lived in Brazil since 1953, when she moved to São Paulo. There, she won the award of best book cover at the São Paulo Art Biennial. Since then, she made various independent expositions and worked with various architects.[2]
In Recife the stained glass for the chapel of the Federal Court of the 5th Region (TRF/5ª), of the Court of Justice of Pernambuco (TJPE) and the bronze sculpture at the hall of the Professor Barreto Guimarães School of Public Accounts of the Court of Auditors of Pernambuco are her works.
Peretti died on 25 April 2022, at the Real Hospital Português in Recife. The cause of death was not given.[3] Five days later, she was buried at Cemitério Campo da Esperança, in Asa Sul, Brasília.[4]