Figurative Modernism
The first woman honored in the Prix de Rome competition, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Renée Jullien was the daughter of the composer Georges-Maurice-René Jullien and of Madeleine Gretillat.
She entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1919, presented by the painters Louis-François Biloul and Jules Adler.
She was the first woman to be honored in the Prix de Rome competition, receiving the Second Second Grand Prix in 1923 for a painting on the theme of Golgotha; the painter Pierre Dionisi won the First Grand Prix.
In 1929 she married the architect Jean-Paul Hellet-Ferret, with whom she had a daughter, Claude.
Works online
1 work shown online. Further works by this artist may be available on request.
The works shown online are only part of the Numina Gallery collection. Further paintings by these and other French masters are held in our New York and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin rooms and can be presented on request. Please contact us for a complete list.
