Plate IV · Figurative Modernism
Le Port de Marseille
The Port of Marseille
Renée Jullien (1903 – 1999)
Artist
Renée Jullien (1903 – 1999)
Title
Le Port de Marseille
Date
Dated 1937
Medium
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Dimensions
65 × 54 cm (25.6 × 21.3 in)
Provenance
Private collection
Availability
Available for private acquisition. Price on request.
About Renée Jullien
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.