Francine SIMONIN

Les danseurs, 140 x 165 cm, 2012
Equinoxe - Le port 1, 100 x 120 cm, 2012
Equinoxe - Le port 2, 100 x 120 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 23, 140 x 165 cm, 2012, SOLD
Equinoxe 22, 140 x 165 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 21, 165 x 140 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 20, 160 x 185 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 19, 140 x 165 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 11, 100 x 120 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 8, 44 x 75 cm, 2012
Equinoxe 7, 60 x 60 cm, 2011, SOLD
Equinoxe 4, 60 x 60 cm, 2011
Equinoxe 1, 50 x 50 cm, 2011
Le sourire du tigre 2, 130 x 130 cm, 2011
Le sourire du tigre 1, 130 x 130 cm, 2011
Les dunes 5, 120 x 140 cm, 2010
Les dunes 4, 100 x 120 cm, 2010
Hommage à Duras, 100 x 120 cm, 2010, SOLD
Figure double, 118 x 183 cm, 2010
Falaises du nord 4, 120 x 140 cm, 2010

Éclat no. 5, 101.5 x 94.5 cm, 2015
Aquatiques, no. 1, 132.5 x 98 cm, 2015
Vue de ma fenêtre, 140 x 166 cm, 2015
Vue de ma fenêtre, 182 x 99 cm, 2014
Vue de ma fenêtre, 182 x 99 cm, 2014
Vue de ma fenêtre, 182 x 99 cm, 2014
Léman (1), 33.5 x 80.5 cm, 2014
Léman, 70 x 82 cm, 2013
Magic Script, 79 x 139 cm, 2012, SOLD
Magic Script, 68 x 135 cm, 2012, SOLD

Born in 1936 in Lausanne Switzerland, Francine Simonin has been living and working in Montréal since 1968. During the last forty years, she has been involved in more than two hundred exhibitions, mainly in Switzerland and in Canada but also in France, the United States and Spain. During her prestigious career, she has won numerous awards and recognition, in particular, the first Swiss Biennial Event of Engraving Award in Geneva (1968), the Loto-Quebec Award in Montréal (1981), the Irène Raymond Award for the body of her work in Lausanne (1986), the Print award at the Drawing, Print and Paper Biennial in Alma (1993) as well as first prize at the 16th International Miniature Print Exhibition in Cadaques, Spain (1996). In October 2004, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Monique and Robert Parizeau foundation awarded her 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 du Québec, the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, the National Art Gallery of Canada, the Art Bank of Canada Council for the Arts as well as in several private collections worldwide.

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Enfin l’été
Montreal (6/17/2016 – 9/3/2016)

Group exhibition Summer 2016
Quebec (6/11/2016 – 9/4/2016)

Canadien Bacon – Dialogues 2
Quebec (5/13/2016 – 6/5/2016)

Group exhibition Spring 2016
Montreal (4/7/2016 – 5/8/2016)

Group exhibition Winter 2016
Montreal (2/16/2016 – 4/3/2016)

Recent Works
Quebec (3/10/2016 – 3/27/2016)

Recent Works
Montreal (11/21/2015 – 12/20/2015)

Group exhibition Autumn 2015
Montreal (10/1/2015 – 10/31/2015)

Group exhibition Summer 2015
Montreal (8/5/2015 – 9/30/2015)

Group exhibition Summer 2015
Quebec (7/3/2015 – 9/16/2015)

Group exhibition Spring 2015
Montreal (5/1/2015 – 5/31/2015)