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.

Biography 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.

Ortíz was born whilst his father was studying at the Milan Conservatory. In 1891, aged four, Ortíz's family returned to Chile.

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. Together with Camilo Mori and other artists from Chile, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate helped found the Grupo Montparnasse. Ortíz and Piechowska had two children, including the costume designer Laure Lourié . Ortíz was the father-in-law of Eugène Lourié, and the former father-in-law of John Ferren.