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A YOUNG GIRL
WINS THE GRAND PRIX DE ROME
IN PAINTING
Miss Odette Pauvert will be the first female painter
resident of the Villa Medici.
 The first second prize to Mr. Clamens, the second to Mr. Couturat.
Yesterday, the Académie des Beaux-Arts awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in painting to Miss Odette Pauvert; the first second grand prize to Mr. Clamens, and the second second grand prize to Mr. Couturat.
Miss Odette Pauvert will be the first female painter to enter the Villa Medici, where she was preceded by Miss Heuvelmans, who won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture before the war; then Miss Lily Boulanger, Madame Canal, and Miss Leleu, who won the Grand Prix de Rome for musical composition.
Yesterday's grand prize winner is a twenty-one-year-old girl. She was born in Paris on November 10, 1903, into a family of artists, as she herself told us, when we went with the master Denys Puech, director of the Académie de France in Rome, where she became a resident, to congratulate her on her great success.
Her father, the painter Henri Pauvert, a student of Bouguereau, exhibited a graceful portrait of her at the 1922 Salon, which earned him an award from the Society of French Artists; her mother, Madame Pauvert, was a very talented miniaturist; her sister, Mademoiselle Marguerite Pauvert, who would join her someday at the Villa Medici, was a logiste with her that year and had painted a highly acclaimed Venus Astarte.
Mademoiselle Odette Pauvert, a student of Messrs. Emile Renard and Ferdinand Hunbert, had only been at the École des Beaux-Arts for five years, where she won the highest awards: six mentions, the Grand Medal of Emulation, four other medals, the Attainville, Léon Bertaux, Duffer, and Chenavard prizes.
She received her first award at the 1922 Salon, where her father, mother, and sister were exhibiting. She had sent Lotus Flower, a delightful miniature. At the 1923 and 1924 Salons, she won her bronze and silver medals. At this year's Salon, her lovely painting Let the Little Children Come to Me achieved the success it deserved. For the Prix de Rome, Mlle Odette Pauvert competed with The Legend of Saint Ronan, a well-composed and impeccably executed work, as well as a moving inspiration. She immediately won an impressive majority over her competitors in the ballot for the Grand Prize.
The other winners
Mr. Henri-Louis-Auguste Clamens, who was awarded the first Second Grand Prize, is also a very young artist. Born in Nîmes on February 1, 1905, a student of Mr. Ernest Laurent, he has a very honorably filled "sheet of values" at the École des Beaux-Arts. His submission for the Rome competition was a Prodigal Son, intensely melancholic, and beautifully natural, revealing a painter's nature. Mr. Jean-Henri-Marie Coutural, second Second Grand Prize winner, for his Naked Woman, of such seductive suppleness and color, born in Paris on February 9, 1904, a student of Cormon, Messrs. Emile Renard, and Pierre Laurens, has only had a short career at the École des Beaux-Arts, but a very brilliant one. He has a bright future ahead of him. The Academy then awarded the Troyon landscape prize of 1,100 francs to Miss Pillet, daughter of the master medal engraver Charles Pillet, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1890 and the medal of honor at the Salon in 1923.
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