Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen
lodin loʊkən is a
French painter
This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the painter was most active.
alphabetically
A–C
* Edmond Aman-Jean (1858–1936)
* Albert André (1869–1954)
* Mathuren Arthur Andrieu (1822–189 ...
in the
naïve style.
Several of his 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
Sainte-Adresse (
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
) on 22 February 1965. She studied at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts of
Le Havre
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.
Career
In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café
Les Deux Magots in Paris.
Colombe Anouilh, on 8 December 2014, awarded her the
Jean Anouilh prize for her work on canvas ''Young women with wolves'' (''Jeunes filles aux loups'') presented at the
Salon d'automne
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
, in Paris. In 2021, still at the
Salon d'Automne
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
, 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
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
in Paris, bringing together some twenty artists from the naive art
movement.
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
* 2021 : ''Wolves'', Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris
* 2019 : La maison de l'Etang,
Louveciennes
Louveciennes () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi.
Population
...
, France
* 2019 : ''The ladies of the Andelys'',
Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France
* 2018 : Galery Rollin,
Rouen
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, Franc
Rouen : l’univers onirique de Claudine Loquen à découvrir à la galerie Rollin* 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 Les Deux Magots, Paris
Group exhibitions
* 2022 : National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne à Tokyo, Japon
* 2019 :
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, France
* 2019 : International Children's Art Museum,
Salon d'automne
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
, Xi'an, China
* 2016 : National Art center Museum, Salon d'automne à Tokyo, Japon
* 2016 : International Museum of Naive Art of Magog, Canada
* 2012 : Hainan Museum, Salon d'automne, Haikou, China
* 2011 : Museum of Spontaneous Art, Evere, Belgium
* 2010 :
Salon d'Automne
The Salon d'Automne (; en, Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris, France. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The f ...
,
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ( en, Great Palace of the Elysian Fields), commonly known as the Grand Palais ( English: Great Palace), is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th ...
, Paris, France
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''Ricochet.org''''BnF''''Art e Cultura''
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1965 births
Outsider artists
Feminist artists
Naïve painters
Collage artists
20th-century French painters
French women painters
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20th-century French women artists
Women outsider artists
Living people