Prix de Rome Laureates
Anne Poirier-Houllevigne
Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1967
Anne Poirier-Houllevigne wins the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture, 1967, and becomes a resident of the French Academy in Rome, at the Villa Medici.
Anne Poirier (born 1941) won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1967. With Patrick Poirier, whom she met at the Beaux-Arts, she was a resident of the Villa Medici from 1968 to 1971 — among the very last laureates of the old competition.
The couple have worked four-handed ever since, under the signature “Anne et Patrick Poirier”. Their work, steeped in archaeology and the ruins of Rome, explores memory and the fragility of civilisations: models of destroyed cities, fragments, herbaria, vanitas.
Exhibited worldwide, they are among the major names of French contemporary art. As their works are under copyright, they are not reproduced here: see the galleries and links below.
That same year, the Premier Grand Prix was also awarded to Michel Fargeot.
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