page_title: Anna Quinquaud
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Quinquaud / Career
caption_attribution_description: Décor de la façade de la résidence Lucien Paye, ancienne maison de la France d'Outre-mer Le bâtiment est l’œuvre de l'architecte Albert Laprade, les décors sont d'Anna Quinquaud Article de Wikipedia sur Anna Quinquaud fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Quinquaud La Résidence Lucien PAYE a été inaugurée en 1951, sous le nom de Maison de la France d’Outre-Mer. Sa vocation initiale était d’accueillir à Paris les étudiants originaires des territoires français d'outre-mer. Après l’indépendance des anciennes colonies, la résidence a permis de loger en priorité les ressortissants des pays d’Afrique Noire. En 1972, elle a été rebaptisée Lucien PAYE. Cet universitaire, ministre de l’Éducation Nationale en 1961 et ancien haut responsable de la France au Sénégal, a joué un rôle important dans la création des universités africaines. Voir l'histoire de cette maison sur le site officiel de la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CIUP) www.ciup.fr/les_maisons/residence_lucien_paye/histoire
context_page_description: Anna Fanny Marguerite Quinquaud was a French explorer and award-winning sculptor. From 1925, she travelled to the French-speaking countries of East Africa where she created numerous sculptures and water colours inspired by her impressions of the local people. She exhibited them at the Galerie Charpentier and at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931. In 1932, she visited Ethiopia where she created a bust of Haile Selassie.
  Her work is included in the collection of the musée Despiau-Wlérick in Mont-de-Marsan, France.
context_section_description: In 1924, the École des Beaux-Arts awarded her a Prix de Rome scholarship, including a year's study in Rome. However quite unusually for a young woman of her day, she decided instead to travel to Africa in 1925–26, visiting the Niger, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan and Mali, accompanied only by her Sudanese boys who carried her sculptures, clothes and equipment. Inspired by the local people, she portrayed them in her sculptures.
  Thanks to her careful observation of their bodies and faces, her busts, bronzes and artwork depicted African women during pregnancy, carrying water or at work.
  She subsequently returned to Africa in 1930–31, this time at her own expense, visiting the Niger, the Fouta Djallon region of French Guinea and Timbuktu. Based in Pita, over a period of eight months she came into contact with the Fula, Coniagui and Bassari people. Her creations include the tall beauty Aissatou, the rather sulky Kadé, Tougué's daughter, Nénégalley, daughter of Tierno Moktar, chief of Pita, a little Fula girl, her "Maternité Pita", holding a baby, and "Archer coniagui" complete with bow. Aspiring to capture the essence of these people, she commented: "Isn't it the artist's role to reveal to the non-initiate what he is unable to see?" Whether in wood, bronze or terracotta, her works depict the slim, haughty silhouettes of these figures, also revealing their gestures and movements. Many of her works from this expedition were exhibited at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris and at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition. 
  In 1932, she visited Africa for the third and last time, visiting Somalia, Ethiopia and Madagascar, once again bringing back her creations. These and earlier works were exhibited at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in 1937.
  In later life, she participated in work on several monuments in Normandy, including the Calvaire Saint-Pierre Memorial in Caen (1961) and plaster reliefs for the Jean Moulin de Venoix school (1978).
  Anna Quinquaud died on 25 December 1984 at Fontenay-Trésigny.
caption: Relief by Quinquaud at the Résidence Lucien Paye
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