Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen

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is a French painter in the naïve style. Several of her works are held in French and foreign museums (Musée Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise, Musée international d'art naïf in Magog, Musée d'art spontané in Brussels).

Biography

Early life

Loquen is born in

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) on 22 February 1965. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of

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Career

In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café

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in Paris. Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the

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prize for her work on canvas ''Young women with wolves'' (''Jeunes filles aux loups'') presented at the Salon d'automne, in Paris. In 2021, still at the Salon d'Automne, she was awarded the Naive Art prize for a painting ''In the shadow of the flowering maidens'' (''A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs''). From 2021, she presides over the Naive Art section at the Salon d'automne in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art movement.

Themes

Loquen mainly paints women and historical figures, drawing her inspiration from literature, history, poetry and fairytales. She has made the wolf her animal symbol. Gemellity and sorority are also recurring themes in her work.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* 2023 : ''Sisters...and stories'', Centre Culturel Jean-Pierre Fabrègue, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France * 2021 : ''Wolves'', Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris * 2019 : La maison de l'Etang,

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, France * 2019 : ''The ladies of the Andelys'',

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, Les Andelys, France * From 2018 to 2023 : Galery Rollin,

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, France * 2016 : ''As long as there are wolves'', Museum of Spontaneous Art, Brussels, Belgium * 2011 : ''Singular portraits'', Sénat, Pavillon Davioud, Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris * 2003 : Café

, Paris

Paris salons

* 2024 : Salon Figuration Critique, Bastille design Center, Paris, France * 2019 :

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, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France * From 2017 to 2025 : Salon Comparaisons,

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, Paris, France * From 2015 to 2016 : Salon des artistes Français,

, Paris, France * From 2010 to 2019, 2024, 2025 : Salon d'Automne,

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, Paris, France * 2021, 2022 : Salon d'Automne, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

Group exhibitions

* 2023 :

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Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Lubiniec, Poland * 2023 : Masta Jaworzna Museum, Amplitude project, Salon d'Automne, Jaworzno, Poland * 2023 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, ''If I were told the story of France...'', Canada * 2022 : The National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne, Tokyo, Japon * 2019 : International Children's Art Museum, Salon d'automne, Xi'an, China * 2016 : National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne à Tokyo, Japon * 2016 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, ''Imaginaïves'', Canada * 2012 :

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, Salon d'automne, Haikou, China * 2011 : Museum of Spontaneous Art, Evere, Belgium

Bibliography

* Frédérique-Anne Oudin (preface), 2020, ''Les oubliées'', Tome 1, éditions La Grisette, 36 p * Luis Porquet (preface) 2018, ''Loquen'', 18 p * Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, (preface), 2011, ''Claudine Loquen'', ''Portraits singuliers.'' Paris : éditions Lelivredart, 28 p * HeleneCaroline Fournier, (preface), 2011, ''Sénat, Portraits singuliers'', ''Claudine Loquen.'' Québec : Art Total Multimédia, 20 p * IIeana Cornea, (preface), textes de Sylvie Loquen, 2008, ''Claudine Loquen.'' éditions Lelivredart, 40 p * HeleneCaroline Fournier, (preface), 2008, ''Claudine Loquen.'' Québec : Art Total Multimedia * Jean-Louis Redval (preface), 2004, ''Loquen'', éditions Sémios, 44 p

Notes and references

External links

Official website

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''BnF''

''Art-Culture-France'
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