Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari
1933 - 2004
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Guido Molinari was born in 1933 in Montreal into an artistic family - his father was a musician and his mother the daughter of a craftsman. In 1951, Guido Molinari began studying at the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he distinguished himself with his protests against the accepted concepts of painting by painting blindfolded.

Although working in abstraction and aware of the Automatist and the Plasticien painters in Montreal, Molinari did not directly align himself with these groups. Interested in the explorations of European Surrealists in automatic writing, his work in the early 1950s reflected his own experiments with this practice. However, Molinari declared his freedom by describing himself as the theorist of "Molinarism." He was a charismatic intellectual and a central figure in the art scene in Montreal and its new directions into abstraction. His first solo show was at l'Échourie, where he was director of exhibitions. His intent was to make l'Échourie a meeting place for artists of the post-Automatist generation. In 1955 he founded Galerie l'Actuelle, the first gallery in Montreal to exclusively show abstract art. In 1956 the Non-Figurative Artists Association of Montreal was created at Galerie l'Actuelle, and Molinari, a founding member, participated in their exhibitions. During the 1950s, as well as works based on automatic writing, Molinari produced gestural paintings, and a powerful group of black and white works. In 1959 he was included in the Third Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada.

In the 1960s, he created geometric abstract works and produced his Stripe Paintings series. During this decade he exhibited in galleries and museums in New York - such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (The Responsive Eye in 1965), and in 1963 MOMA acquired one of his paintings. He began to exhibit internationally, and continued to do so in subsequent decades.

Molinari's interest in the dynamic energy of colour continued in his Quantifier series - large-scale monochromes, in radiant hues such of red or cobalt blue, with subtle and irregular divisions created by subtle tonal differences - begun in 1975, this series endured over 20 years.

Molinari taught for 27 years at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), retiring in 1997. His theoretical writing influenced generations of younger Canadian artists. He won many awards, such as the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas in 1980. He represented Canada in the 1968 Venice Biennale with works from his Bi-serial series, winning the David E. Bright Foundation prize. Retrospectives of his work took place in 1976 at the National Gallery of Canada, and in 1995 at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal. He died in Montreal in 2004.
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Sans titre by Guido Molinari vendu pour $354,000
Guido Molinari
Sans titre
84 x 96 in, 213.4 x 243.8 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 100 000 $ - 150 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 354 000 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Spring 2016 - 1st Session, mercredi, 25 mai 2016
Bi-sériel violet-ocre by Guido Molinari vendu pour $337,250
Guido Molinari
Bi-sériel violet-ocre
111 x 90 in, 281.9 x 228.6 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 337 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, mercredi, 01 décembre 2021
Sérielle ocre-brun by Guido Molinari vendu pour $313,250
Guido Molinari
Sérielle ocre-brun
84 x 67 in, 213.4 x 170.2 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 313 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, mercredi, 20 novembre 2019
Système sériel vert-rouge by Guido Molinari vendu pour $313,250
Guido Molinari
Système sériel vert-rouge
90 x 72 in, 228.6 x 182.9 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 313 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, jeudi, 25 mai 2023
Mutation bi-sérielle by Guido Molinari vendu pour $306,800
Guido Molinari
Mutation bi-sérielle
80 x 60 in, 203.2 x 152.4 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 100 000 $ - 150 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 306 800 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Fall 2016 - 1st Session, mercredi, 23 novembre 2016
Sériel vert-violet by Guido Molinari vendu pour $277,250
Guido Molinari
Sériel vert-violet
92 x 144 in, 233.7 x 365.8 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 277 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, mercredi, 02 décembre 2020
Espace bleu-ocre by Guido Molinari vendu pour $253,250
Guido Molinari
Espace bleu-ocre
81 x 108 in, 205.7 x 274.3 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 253 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, jeudi, 23 novembre 2023
Mutation rythmique rouge-orange by Guido Molinari vendu pour $247,800
Guido Molinari
Mutation rythmique rouge-orange
90 1/8 x 78 1/8 in, 228.9 x 198.4 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 100 000 $ - 150 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 247 800 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Fall 2015 - 1st Session, jeudi, 26 novembre 2015
Sériel bleu-ocre by Guido Molinari vendu pour $229,250
Guido Molinari
Sériel bleu-ocre
78 x 63 in, 198.1 x 160 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 200 000 $ - 300 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 229 250 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art, jeudi, 23 novembre 2023
Quantificateur rouge by Guido Molinari vendu pour $200,600
Guido Molinari
Quantificateur rouge
84 x 95 7/8 in, 213.4 x 243.5 cm
acrylique sur toile
Estimation : 80 000 $ - 100 000 $ CDN
Vendu pour : 200 600 $ CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Spring 2016 - 1st Session, mercredi, 25 mai 2016