Financial District- Fire Station #13

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Untitled by Henri Marie-Rose 1969

Henri Marie-Rose (1922-2010) born in François, Martinique, the son of Appien Constance Raymonde and Quentin Joseph Marie-Rose Dite Cétoute, Henri Marie-Rose Dite Cétoute, who later simply went by Henri Marie-Rose, was a San Francisco resident for 58 years, living initially in North Beach before settling on Potrero Hill.

He attended the École des Arts et Métiers and the École des Arts Appliqués in Martinique. He had three one man shows in 1940, 1942 and 1943 and was appointed Attaché Culturel au Projet d’Urbanisme,

Shortly thereafter, he was awarded a scholarship by the French Government to study at the École National Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, but got only as far as North Africa when the Second World War broke out.

Eventually Henri studied at “Beaux Arts” for over eight years. During this period, he met an art student, Marjorie Raitt, who was attending the Sorbonne and the Académie Julian, having recently graduated from Stanford. The couple married in 1952 and traveled by freighter to San Francisco the following year. Within weeks of his arrival, he won the Emanuel Walter Purchase Prize, & later hosted an 18 week series on KQED entitled “Techniques in Sculpture”. In 1960, his work was exhibited in a one man show at the De Young Museum. He went on to exhibit across the country & in Brazil. He spent his final 12 years as a teacher & mentor for Recology’s Artists in Residence Program.

This piece is copper and is part of the San Francisco Civic Art Collection.