Marianne Peretti

Marie Anne Antoinette Hélène Peretti (13 December 1927 – 25 April 2022) was a French-Brazilian artist.

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.

Peretti has lived in Brazil since 1953, when she moved to São Paulo. There, she won the award for best book cover at the São Paulo Art Biennial. Since then, she has made various independent exhibitions and worked with various architects. Five days later, she was buried at Cemitério Campo da Esperança, in Asa Sul, Brasília.