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LOT 035

AANFM LP QMG RCA SAPQ
1933 - 2004
Canadien

Sans titre
acrylique sur toile
au verso signé et daté
42 x 24 po, 106.7 x 61 cm

Estimation : 50 000 $ - 70 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 118 000 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Quebec, 1967

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Pierre Théberge, Guido Molinari, National Gallery of Canada, 1976, pages 54 - 55
Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2007, page 188


In a 1972 speech given at the National Research Council in Ottawa, painter Guido Molinari stated, “My own position regarding the problem of colour is that it is through a redefinition of the colour phenomena and dynamism that painting can realize its full potentialities.” The artist had fulfilled this ambitious aim of redefining chromatic possibilities with his quintessential 1960s series, the Stripe Paintings. This impeccable painting from 1966 is a fine example of this endeavour. Slender vertical stripes of equal width cover the surface of the canvas. Cobalt blue, red, chocolate, orange and bright green precede and succeed each other in a particular but not repeated pattern. Each and every hue is influenced by the colour next to it, so that the same blue may appear darker placed next to a brown stripe rather than a green one. Vibrant and rhythmic, this painting reveals the relationships between colours. As art historian Roald Nasgaard further explains, “Molinari's concern was not the aesthetic quality of colour but its dynamic energy. Given in repeated patterns, colour was released to give full expression to its chromatic energies and interactions.”


Estimation : 50 000 $ - 70 000 $ CAD

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