The Grupo Montparnasse was an organization of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an artists who had joined the gathering of great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter

Montparnasse

Montparnasse is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail...

 of Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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, in the early part of the 20th century. Founding members, Luis Vargas Rosas and Camilo Mori

Camilo Mori

Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....

 among others, exihibt in the Salon d'Automne of 1920 in Paris where they meet Juan Gris

Juan Gris

José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life...

, Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

 and other artists experimenting in the new trends of the time like cubism and expressionism. The group's first exhibition was organized by Luis Vargas Rosas in Santiago in 1923. Their first exhibition was marked by postimpressionist influences, notably the works of Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

. Their "Salón de Junio" in 1925 saw a new generation of young painters join the group. Just as their comrades in Paris had, these creative men and women challenged the norms in Chilean painting, profoundly shaping a new world of art in their country.

Some of the group's members and adherents:

• Pablo Burchard
  Pablo Burchard
  Pablo Burchard was a Chilean painter....
  
    (1873–1960)
• Jorge Caballero (1902–1992)
• Isaías Cabezón (1891–1963)
• Hector Cáceres (1897–1980)
• Ana Cortés (1906–1998)
• Augusto Eguiluz (1893–1969)
• Jorge Letelier (1887–1966)
• Camilo Mori
  Camilo Mori
  Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....
  
    (1896–1973)
• Julio Ortiz de Zárate Pinto  (1885–1943)
• Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate
  Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto was a Chilean painter.Born Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto in Como, Italy, he was the son of Chilean composer Eleodoro Ortiz de Zárate and of María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz...
  
    (1887–1946)
• Henriette Petit  (1894–1983)
• José Perotti  (1898–1956)
• Inés Puyó (1906–1996)
• Luis Vargas Rosas  (1897–1977)
• Pablo Vidor (1892–1991)
• Waldo Vila (1894–1979)
• Marta Villanueva (1900–1995)
• Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi "Juan Emar" (1893–1964)