Renée Gabriel seen from Florence

Renée Bernard (Oytier-Saint-Oblas, June 11, 1906 - Paris 20th, May 19, 20041) is a French painter.

Biography

Renée Bernard was born in 1906 in Oytier-Saint-Oblas2.
From 1933 to 1936 she attended the École Normale de Grenoble2 and continued her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Institut d'art et d'archéologie2.
In Paris she joined the studio of Lucien Simon, her teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts3. She painted, sometimes in gouache, figures, landscapes and wall decorations2. She was inspired by the Fauves4.
She became a drawing teacher in Parisian schools, a job she left after 18 years to become an inspector of drawing education3.
She exhibited in several salons in Paris and elsewhere, such as that of the Société des Beaux-Arts de la France d'Outre-Mer, and she was rewarded several times: she received four prizes from the Institute and two prizes from the Taylor Foundation3. In addition, she often received commissions from the State or the City of Paris3.
She painted either in her Paris studio or in her studio at Trois Cyprés, in her hometown4.
Thanks to the scholarships she received, she traveled to French West Africa, Morocco and the Antilles. Her trip to French West Africa, won in 1940 and postponed to 1947 because of the Second World War, led her to visit Senegal, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Mauritania and Guinea for eight months3.
She created the Renée-Bernard Prize at the Taylor Foundation to promote talented artists5.
She died in Paris in 20046.

Shows and exhibitions

Galerie Weil in Paris, in 19773
Galerie du Cercle in Paris, in 19823
Musée de Vienne, in 19863
Ville de Corenc, in 1988, where the works for the future Musée de Grenoble will be kept3
Fondation Taylor in Paris, in 1989
The Musée Mainssieux in Voiron included her in 2003 in its exhibition Women Painters in Dauphiné, 19th and 20th Centuries7

Public collections

Musée Carnavalet - History of Paris
Museums of Dieppe4
Museum of Grenoble4

Appendices

Bibliography

Lynne Thornton, Les Africanistes, peintres voyageurs : 1860-1960, vol. 9, Courbevoie, Acr Edition, coll. "The Orientalists", 1990, 336 p. (ISBN 2-86770-045-0, read online [archive]), p. 315.
Rénée Bernard, Hiking through Africa in 1947, Paris, 1988.
François Roussier, Musée Mainssieux, Women Painters in Dauphiné: 19th and 20th Centuries (catalogue of the exhibition from June 14 to October 31, 2003), Voiron, Musée Mainssieux, 2003, 134 p. (OCLC 197808251)
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