Claudine Loquen
Claudine Marie Claire Loquen (born 1965), known as Claudine Loquen [Klodin loʊkən], is a French painter in the naïve style.[1]
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Born | Sainte-Adresse (Seine Maritime), France | 22 February 1965
Nationality | French |
Known for | Painting, sculpting, drawing |
Movement | Naïve art, outsider art |
Awards | Jean Anouilh award; Naive Art award |
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).[2][3]
Biography
Early life

Loquen is born in Sainte-Adresse (Normandy) on 22 February 1965.[4] She studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Le Havre.[5]
Career

In 2003, her first exhibition took place in Café Les Deux Magots in Paris.[6]
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, 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.[7]
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2021 : Wolves, Les peintres du Marais Galery, Paris
- 2019 : La maison de l'Etang, Louveciennes, France
- 2019 : The ladies of the Andelys, Musée Nicolas Poussin, Les Andelys, France[8]
- 2018 : Galery Rollin, Rouen, France 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, 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, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Bibliography
- Frédérique-Anne Oudin (preface), 2020, Les oubliées, Tome 1, éditions La Grisette, 36 p ISBN 978-2-9557039-1-5
- Luis Porquet (preface), 2018, Loquen, 18 p ISBN 978-2-9557039-9-1
- 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 ISBN 978-2-923622-11-8
- IIeana Cornea, (preface), textes de Sylvie Loquen, 2008, Claudine Loquen. éditions Lelivredart, 40 p ISBN 9782355320187
- HeleneCaroline Fournier, (preface), 2008, Claudine Loquen. Québec : Art Total Multimedia
- Jean-Louis Redval (preface), 2004, Loquen, éditions Sémios, 44 p
Notes and references
- Bible of singular art (La bible de l'art singulier), Ed. Lelivredart, 2011=isbn 978-2-35532-076-7
- "Loquen Claudine". 18 February 2021.
- "Musée International d'Art_Naïf de Magog : Search Objects : Claudine Loquen".
- Luis Porquet, Les affiches de Normandie, 2018-issn=1145-8488
- Biography
- Café Les Deux Magots, Paris
- "Le Salon d'Automne | Art naïf".
- "Exposition Claudine Loquen au musée Nicolas Poussin (Les Andélys) | Les éditions Lelivredart".
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