Roland Marie Gérardin
1907-1935

Roland Marie Gérardin was born in Paris in 1907. He is best known as a painter of historical, mythological, and religious subject matter as well as genre scenes.

He studied with Jean–Paul Laurens at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gérardin exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. He received the Prix Duffer in 1927 and the Prix Collin, Stillmann, A. Mangin in 1930 and won the second Prix de Rome in 1930 and 1931. During that same year, he received a monetary award for the Artistes Français. In 1933, he won the first Grand Prix de Rome.

His work is found in the permanent collections of the Musée National d’Art Modern and Musée du Petit-Palais both in Paris. The Musée d’Art et d’Industrie in Saint Étienne also owns one of his works.

Gérardin died in Rome in 1935 while visiting the Villa Médicis.