Jacques Derrey. Portrait With Turban. Oil On Canvas

Jacques-Charles Derrey was born in Toulouse on September 22, 1907. From 1914 to 1929, he spent most of his childhood and youth in Nantes with his maternal grandfather Félix Pommier, curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts. A pupil at the Lycée Georges-Clemenceau, he won the 1^er prize in the general drawing competition there in 1925. Then a student at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 1927 and 1928, then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studios of Lucien Simon and Louis Roger from 1930 to 1935, he exhibited the paintings La Loire au Cellier and Un aspect du Cellier at the 1929 Salon des Artistes Français.

He won the Prix Brizard in 1931 and the Prix Blumenthal in 1934, then the first Grand Prix de Rome for intaglio engraving in 1936 with Job sur son fumier. He then became a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1937 to 1939.

He was laureate of the Institut de France in 1950 and named Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1958.

He died in Paris on May 17, 1975.

Source: Wikipedia