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Jean Duquoc is a French-born painter who draws inspiration from the land, seas and skies of Brittany. Duquoc was born in Nantes in northwest France in 1937. He enjoyed a happy childhood with his father who was an intellectual art and music lover and his mother who he revered was of rural background who loved farming and the outdoors. In his early professional life, Duquoc was in advertising and art publishing and distinguished himself as a creator of art calendars in the medium of contemporary painting and reproduction art. It was at the age of 40 that he became a professional artist and is entirely self-taught.