Pierre Carron is a French sculptor and painter. Born in F�camp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole r�gionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was, for a time, the only student at the school. Later, he attended the �cole nationale sup�rieure des arts d�coratifs, then, in 1951, he entered the �cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, to study and work under the mentorship of Raymond Legueult. In 1957, he received the Prix de la critique and, in 1960, the Grand Prix de Rome. He took up residence in the Villa Medici, where he met Balthus, director of the establishment at the time. He became professor at the �cole des Beaux-Arts in 1967, a post he held for thirty years. He became the last professor at the school to teach exclusively in a figurative, realist, style of painting. In 1991, he was elected to the Acad�mie des Beaux-Arts, to the chair previously occupied by F�lix Labisse. In 2002, he was made president of the Academie. 

December 16th, 1932 in Fécamp (Age 91)