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= Naudin François = François Naudin (French: [fʁɑ̃swa nodɛ̃]; 25 February 1945, Paris, France) is a French painter, poet, journalist, researcher of French poetry.

Biography
Naudin studied in Paris in «lycées» (secondary schools) Carnot and Janson de Sailly. During the three years spent in the latter, followed private art lessons with a limited number of students on Saturday afternoons (after regular hours). During the Summer holidays 1960, finds and reads Paul Sérusier’s ABC de la peinture (A Painting ABC), thus complementing the visit of the van Gogh exhibition at Jacquemart-André museum (Paris) during the spring and anticipating on the exhibition Les Sources du XXème siècle / Sources of XXth Century Art later in the year at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. These three events confirm Naudin in his decision to become a painter, like he had resolved ten years earlier.

His father’s death in 1959 however prevented Naudin from studying at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts as he had intended since childhood.

During all his years as a professional financial journalist, a large part of Naudin’s leisure hours was spent painting, visiting galleries and exhibitions, and reading all sorts of criticism, biographies and texts by twentieth century painters.

After early retirement in 2003, Naudin, also deeply interested in literature, wrote a thesis on the French novelist and poet Raymond Queneau, eventually published as a book (Les Terreurs de Raymond Queneau / Raymond Queneau’s Terrors, 2011 ).

Painting however remained Naudin’s main activity after retirement. A trip to Australia in Summer 2009 triggered a new surge in painting: the Desert series with more than thirty different works is the first wave of several other series (Murphy, memories of Ireland; Gardane, named after a small city in southern France where Cézanne set his easel; Varèse, as inspired by the French composer who was a friend of Marcel Duchamp’s during his years in New York; Suchen (German for to seek) as inspired by J. S Bach’s Die Kunst der Füge) and many more.

A series Soleil noir / Black sun, in the spirit of a poem by nineteenth century poet Gérard de Nerval and as a tribute to a  deceased friend of Naudin. L'Album d'Iris / Iris's Album reproducing twenty-three paintings inspired by Vassily Kandinsky's Farbstudie mit konzentrischen Ringen / Colour Study with Concentric rings was privately published in December 2018.

Journalism activity
Between 1972 and 1982, Naudin worked as a financial journalist for Agence économique et financière / (L')Agefi, reporting on company news and futures markets, stock markets, and foreign exchange markets of the US, Japan and Australia. Between 1982 and 1992, François Naudin worked in Cote Desfossés, another French financial daily newspaper; on the same topics but with a much wider scope, including the UK, Germany, Italy and Europe in general. Leaving Cote Desfossés, Naudin wrote a report on HDTV for the French Ministry of Telecommunications with Agence MC (1992-1993); he also set up the newsletter RC, La Lettre des communications mobiles / RC, Mobile Communications News, specialised in the then fledgling mobile (cell) telephone (both in English and in French, for fortnightly publication). In 1994, Naudin joined AFX News (AFP-Extel News) in Frankfurt am Main (Germany); later (1995-1996), he resumed reporting securities markets for a financial weekly La Synthèse financière and a monthly Plus-Values. Back with L'Agefi (1996-1997), he specialised on the ongoing modernisation of securities exchanges: computers, software and terminals; control both internal and legal, rules and procedures, compensation, delivery and settlement. In 1997-1999, Naudin was responsible for delivering a daily foreign press review for E-Value, a small Internet-based newswire founded by fellow journalists. At that time, Naudin also wrote a book for Reuters published by Kogan Page. Between 1999 and 2002, Naudin worked for the Agence France Trésor (French Ministry of Finances).

Exhibitions
1962, 1963, Bourg-la-Reine (92320). Two paintings each year with the local artists’ yearly exhibition (all paintings were lost).

1981, Paris, Maison des Missions étrangères, rue Mabillon (75006). Paysages urbains. Urban Landscapes. About forty paintings of various sizes.

2002, Paris, rue Marcadet (75018). Petit accrochage entre amis / A Few Hooks for a Few Friends. About twenty paintings on the walls of the (then empty) walls of a new apartment.

2007, 2008, 102 boulevard de la Villette, Paris (75019). L’Usine. 2007: Six collages (torn paper) of the suite illustrating The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll. 2008: Cosmogonies imaginaires. About thirty recent paintings

2010, Stavelot (Prov. of Liège, Belgium), Guillaume Apollinaire Museum. On the occasion of one hundred years of Apollinaire’s poems Alcools. Four paintings (three oil on paper; one collage and gouache) inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire’s La Chanson du mal aimé.

2012, 2014, 2017, Boutigny-sur-Essonne (91820). Every year as a “special guest” to the local painters’ exhibition; 2012: twelve works of the Desert series, including two Desert and Dreams and two Desert on Fire; 2014: ten works of the Murphy series, including one of the four watercolour paintings intended as A Tribute to W. B. Yeats; 2017: six collages (torn paper) from the suite of illustrations for The Hunting of the Snark.

2018, Four paintings exhibited first in Hang Zhou, at the 21st West Lake Art Fair (Nov. 15-20), then in Bei Jing.