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

Léman, 140 x 167 cm, 2017

Éclat no. 5, 101.5 x 94.5 cm, 2015, SOLD

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

Léman (1), 33.5 x 80.5 cm, 2014, SOLD

Léman, 70 x 82 cm, 2013, SOLD

Magic Script, 79 x 139 cm, 2012, SOLD

Magic Script, 68 x 135 cm, 2012, SOLD

Nomades, 27 x 24 cm, 2012

Nomades, 33 x 30 cm, 2012

Nomades,

Sur le sable, 20 x 20 cm, 2011

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)