{{Short description|French painter}} thumb|Odette Pauvert (1925) '''Odette-Marie Pauvert''' (10 November 1903, Paris — 26 May 1966, Paris) was a French painter. The daughter of two painters, she was first trained by her mother before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts. After awards from the Paris Salon, she went on to become the first woman painter to win the Grand Prix de Rome in 1925. She participated in decorating several pavilions for the 1937 French Art Exposition. A retrospective of her work was held in 1986 at the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers.<ref name="aware">{{cite web |author=Gonnard |first=Catherine |author-link=Catherine Gonnard |date=2018 |title=Odette Pauvert |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/odette-pauvert/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519023900/https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/odette-pauvert/ |archive-date=19 May 2024 |accessdate=19 March 2024 |website=Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibits |publisher= |language=en}}</ref><ref name="artlas">{{cite web |date=7 November 2018 |title=Pauvert. Odette |url=https://acad-artlas.huma-num.fr/items/show/1000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319174015/https://acad-artlas.huma-num.fr/items/show/1000 |archive-date=19 March 2024 |accessdate=19 March 2024 |website=Artlas |publisher= |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Saur, K.G. |date=2021 |title=Pauvert, Odette Marie |url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/AKL/entry/_00072616/html |url-access=subscription |accessdate=19 March 2024 |website=Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online |publisher=De Gruyter |language=de}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Born in Paris on 18 November 1903, Odette-Marie Pauvert was the daughter of the miniature painter Henri Pauvert (1854–1951) and his wife the painter Louise née Cochet (1870–1950). Her sister Marguerite-Louise (1902–83) was also a painter.<ref name=artlas/> Initially instructed by her mother, Pauvert studied from 1921 at the École des Beaux-Art under Ferdinand Hubert and {{ill|Émile Renard|fr}}.<ref name=artlas/><ref name="adp">{{cite web |date=18 April 2020 |title=La vie et l'oeuvre d'Odette Pauvert - 1906-1966 |trans-title=The life and work of Odette Pauvert - 1906-1966 |url=https://pia.ac-paris.fr/serail/jcms/s2_2439957/fr/la-vie-et-l-oeuvre-d-odette-pauvert-1906-1966 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320173848/https://pia.ac-paris.fr/serail/jcms/s2_2439957/fr/la-vie-et-l-oeuvre-d-odette-pauvert-1906-1966 |archive-date=20 March 2024 |accessdate=20 March 2024 |website=Académie de Paris |publisher= |language=fr}}</ref>
==Career== Pauvert's paintings earned her a number of early awards. In 1922, she received the Jauvin d’Attainville prize for ''Solitude'' and in 1923 she won the silver medal at the Salon.<ref name=aware/><ref name=adp/> In 1925, she became the first woman painter to be awarded the Grand Prix de Rome for ''L'egende de Saint Ronan''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Legrand |first=Caroline |date=15 March 2023 |title=Coré sauvée des enfers par Odette Pauvert |trans-title=Coré saved from hell by Odette Pauvert |url=https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/core-sauvee-des-enfers-par-odette-pauvert/42765 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327124758/https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/core-sauvee-des-enfers-par-odette-pauvert/42765 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |access-date=24 September 2024 |work=La Gazette Drouot |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bourbon |first=Diana |date=9 August 1925 |title=First Woman Wins Grand Prix de Rome for Canvas; Odette Pauvert, 22, Parisian Artist, Has Captured Coveted Award With Picture Displaying Mystical Imagination and Grasp of Portraiture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/08/09/archives/first-woman-wins-grand-prix-de-rome-for-canvas-odette-pauvert-22.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 September 2024 |work=The New York Times |pages=X 11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Painter at Her Easel |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/odette-pauvert-painter-and-first-female-winner-of-the-prix-news-photo/516528290 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240925-010432/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/odette-pauvert-painter-and-first-female-winner-of-the-prix-news-photo/516528290 |archive-date=25 September 2024 |access-date=24 September 2024 |website=Getty Images |language=en-us |quote=Odette Pauvert, painter and first female winner of the Prix de Rome art scholarship, posing in her studio, ca. 1925.}}</ref> As a result, she stayed at the Villa Médicis in Rome from 1926 to 1929<ref>{{Cite web |title=Residencies: Odette Pauvert 1926-1929 |url=https://www.villamedici.it/en/residencies/odette-pauvert/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001020427/https://www.villamedici.it/en/residencies/odette-pauvert/ |archive-date=1 October 2023 |access-date=25 September 2024 |website=Villa Medici |language=en-US}}</ref> where she created numerous works. In 1927, she painted a group portrait titled ''Promotion 1926'' depicting herself together with the musician Louis Fourestier, the sculptor Évariste Jonchère and the architect Alfred Audoui.<ref name=adp/>
After returning to France, she created a number of religious works including a fresco ''La Mère et l'enfant'' (1933) for the elementary school on rue Jomard in Paris after winning a competition. She went on to decorate several pavilions for the 1937 French Art Exposition.<ref name=adp/>
Odette Pauvert died in Paris on 26 March 1966.<ref name=artlas/> A retrospective of her work was held in 1986 at the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers.<ref name=aware/>
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