Artists

​Anne Marie Nivouliès

French, 1878-1968

Anne Marie Nivouliès was born in Toulon, France, on January 6, 1879. Although she was a direct descendant of the Counts of Pierrefort, her family was very poor and humble. Despite poverty, Pierrefort attended a convent school, getting then a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts in Paris.

As a student, he attended workshops of great Impressionist masters such as Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). In 1910, won a travel award from the School of Fine Arts in Paris and traveled to Tunisia, where she painted several Mediterranean landscapes .

She married Paul Ternisien on May 18, 1911. Five years later, Pierrefort gave birth to her only son. However, the boy was born with serious health problems, among which hydrocephalus and died at 7 years of age.

In Brazil:
In 1938, the artist moved to Brazil, going to reside in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Firstly lived on the island of Paqueta, then in the Orange district, and finally in the Slope of Glory, where often painted the beautiful landscapes seen from your window.
In Rio de Janeiro, Pierrefort indivuduais did two exhibitions, both at the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1946 and 1956. He also participated in several group, among which stand out the Hall of Independents in Paris (several editions between 1908 and 1955), the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro (1941) and 1st Municipal Hall of Fine Arts in Rio January (1949).

In 1944, Pierrefort widowed, however, even in Brazil alone, decided not to return to France at the time. Would years later, in 1950, and remained there until 1959, when she would return to Brazil for good. Her studio in the neighborhood of Gloria was frequented by many young artists, who with her learnt the impresssionistas techniques .

Later, some of them become famous artists such as attache Sergio Telles. Even alone and widow Pierrefort still paint for nearly another decade in Brazil, until her death on December 24, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro .

Before she died, she lived for six months in Sao Luiz Asylum for Elderly, in Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, her cats lived alone in her studio and apartment, being fed only by friends. After her death, many screens Pierrefort were still there, but much of it had been damaged, and even destroyed by moisture and the cats. The painter Sergio Telles, her friend and follower, carefully restored what was left of the work of Nivouliès Pierrefort. Then dedicated the book "Marie Nivouliès" in her honor published by the Wildenstein Gallery in Buenos Aires in 1977, which fostered a posthumous exhibition of the artist. In addition to text Sergio Telles said the book participated in the work critics Raymond Cogniat, Paris, Rafael Squirru, Buenos Aires, and Mário Barata, Rio de Janeiro. After the show at Wildenstein Buenos Aires, Sergio Telles promoted retrospective of the work of Marie Nivouliès at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, the MASP, the Art Museum of Buenos Aires, and the National Museum of Toulon, the birthplace of photographer.

Nearly 20 years after her death, a gallery of art carioca organized its last major trade exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, had the last opportunity to acquire public art on a work of varied options to choose from.

In 1992 was the last show displayed the painter, called Nature: four centuries of art in Brazil, the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro.