Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was a

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from Chillán, Chile.

Biography

Marta Colvin Andrade was the daughter of James Colvin of Irish descent and Elvira Andrade of Portuguese descent. After the

1939 Chillán earthquake The 1939 Chillán earthquake occurred in south-central Chile on 24 January with a surface-wave magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). With a death toll of around 28,000, compared to the 2,231–6,000 (official estim ...

, she lived in Santiago, Chile, and studied at the

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. In 1943 she was appointed assistant professor from the sculpture workshop of Julio A. Vasquez and master Lorenzo Domínguez and was officially appointed Professor in 1950. In 1948 she attended the Grande Chaumiere Academie in Paris with masters Ossian Zadkine and Henry Laurens. She went on to live in France for more than thirty years. In 1965 she took part in the first

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. She was known worldwide and awarded the National Art Prize in 1970 in recognition of her works. She died in Santiago on 27 October 1995.

Sculpture in museum collections

* ''Silvia'', 1946, bronze, 80 x 43 x 50 cm,

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* ''Danza para tu sombra'', 1952, granit, 3,5 x 3 x 2,8 m, tomb of the dancer Isabel Glatzel, General Santiago Cemetery * ''Buste de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna'', 1952, Square de l'Amérique-Latine, Paris * ''Homenaje a la Neurocirugía'', 1953, bronze, 3 m tall, Instituto de Neurocirugía, Santiago * ''Eslabón'', 1956, sycamore wood, 64cm de hauteur, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,

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* ''Quinchamalí'', 1956, wood, 1.27 x 0.55 x 0.5 m; Parque de las Esculturas Marta Colvin de Chillán * ''Manutara'', 1957, bronze, 1,6 m, Battersea Park,

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* ''Terra Mater'', 1957, bois, 2 m; Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Concepción * ''Andes'', 1959, bronze, 0,50 m, Palais du Quirinal,

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* ''Yo sostengo tu cruz'', 1960, bois, 2,3 m; Benedictine Monastery of the Santísima Trinidad de Las Condes, Santiago * ''Signo solar / Grand Signe'', 1963, Andes stone, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris * ''Monumento a Laurita Lagos'', 1964, Chillán stone, 3 m, Cimetiere de Chillán * ''Las torres del silencio'', 1960-1963, stone, 3,5 x 1,25 x 0,5 m, Musée de sculpture en plein air de Middelheim * ''Vigías'', 1968, polished wood, 2 m tall; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago * ''Le Grand Signe'', 1970, bronze, 2,4 x 2 x 2,2 m, Musée de la sculpture en plein air, Paris * ''Mural de Osaka'', 1970, stone and copper, Museum of Osaka * ''Puerta del Sol'', 1970, red Andes stone, Museum of

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* ''Señal del bosque / Signal en forêt'', 1971, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, Forest of

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* Combs-la-Ville ...

* ''El árbol de la vida'', 1971, stone, Centro Cultural

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, Santiago * ''Carrefour de l'esprit'', 1972, wood, 4,5 x 4 x 2 m, College of Villepinte * ''Caleuche (Nef)'', 1975, Andes stone, 3.5 x 2 x 2 m, port of

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* ''Victoire'', 1978, stone, 4 x 3 x 2 m, Régiment Bouliac,

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* ''Léviathan'', 1977, wood, 4.5 x 3 x 3 m, Lycée Professionnel "Professeur Clerc" in

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(Pas-de-Calais) * ''Mélusine'', 1978, stone, 2,5 m, Collège de la Crèche,

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* ''Rosa de los vientos'', 1979, stone, 3,60 x 3 x 3 m, Faculté d'Ontologie de l'Université de Paris * ''Homenaje a los templarios'', 1981, stone, 4 x 3,5 x 3 m, Ville Nouvelle de

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* ''Espíritu del agua'', 1982, bronze, 3 x 2 x 1,5 m, Plaza del General de Gaulle,

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* ''Vigía del mar'', 1983, granite, 6,5 x 3 x 2 m, Fort Crozon,

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* ''Horizonte andino'', 1986, stone, 0,21 x 0,46 x 0,16 m, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago * ''Madre Tierra / Pachamama'', 1986, red Andes stone, 4.18 x 1.26 x 1.04 m, Museo Parque de las Esculturas de Santiago * ''Himno al trabajo'', 1989, polychromed wood, Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, Santiago * ''Señal de oriente y occidente / Signal'', 1991, polychromed wood, 3.5 m, Sculpture park of Séoul * ''Alas al viento'', stone, sculpture park, University of

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* ''Monumento a

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'', Plaza Sucre, Ñuñoa, Santiago

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colvin, Marta 1907 births 1995 deaths 20th-century sculptors 20th-century Chilean women artists People from Chillán Chilean people of Irish descent Chilean people of Portuguese descent Chilean sculptors Chilean women sculptors Chilean expatriates in France