Daughter of Louise Pauvert and sister of Marguerite Pauvert , both also painters, Odette Pauvert was first a pupil of her mother, before joining the studio of painter Ferdinand Humbert at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in 1921. She won several successes in her early years: the Jauvin d'Attainville prize was awarded to her in 1922 for Solitude , and she won the painted sketch test in 1925 with Adam and Eve . She participated very early in the Salon of French artists where she exhibited regularly, obtaining an honorable mention in 1922, a bronze medal in 1924, a silver medal in 1923 and 1926, and finally a gold medal in 1928. Failing in the Prix ​​de Rome competition of 1923 with Le Golgotha , she won in 1925 with her Legend of Saint Ronan , thus becoming the first woman winner of the Prix de Rome for painting. In this capacity, she spent time in Rome at the Villa Medici between 1926 and 1929, where she painted several compositions. In 1928, she performed a copy of La Messe de Bolsena after Raphaël , but above all produced the group portrait of the Class of 1926 (1927, Rome,Académie de France à Rome ), where she represents herself alongside the musician Louis Fourestier , the sculptor Évariste Jonchère and the architect Alfred Audoul . She was a member of the Sacred Art Workshops and, on her return from Rome, participates in several official projects. She painted a fresco on the theme of The Mother and the Child for the vestibule of the elementary school on rue Jomard in Paris after winning the order following the competition launched by the City of Paris in 1933. She participated in the sets of the Church of the Holy Spirit in 1932, where all the most important official painters of the decade were active, and works on several pavilions for the Universal Exhibition of 1937 in Paris. The Sainte-Croix museum in Poitiers devoted a retrospective exhibition to him in 1986.