Francine Simonin
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(1936-2020)
Born in 1936 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Francine Simonin has lived and worked in Montreal since 1968. During the last forty years, she participated in more than two hundred individual exhibitions in Switzerland, Canada, France, the United States and Spain. During her prestigious career, she took away numerous prizes and distinctions, in particular, the Prize of the first Swiss Biennial engraving event in Geneva (1968), the Prize LotoQuebec in Montreal (1981), the Prize Irène Reymond for the whole of her work in Lausanne (1986), the Prize for print in the Biennial for drawing, print and paper in Alma (1993), as well as the first prize of the 16th Mini Print International of Cadaqués, Spain (1996). In October, 2004, the Musée national des beauxarts du Québec and the Monique and Robert Parizeau foundation awarded Simonin a prize for her exceptional contribution to the history of printmaking in Quebec. We find the works of Francine Simonin in the collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, the Musée de Genève, the Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa), the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts (Ottawa) as well as several private collections worldwide.
Current Artwork For Sale
Les Dunes 4 Sold
100 x 120 cm, 2010
Equinoxe - Le port 1 Sold
100 x 120 cm, 2012