Lot 108: GUIDO MOLINARI 1933 - 2004

GUIDO MOLINARI 1933 - 2004 STRUCTURE TRIANGULAIRE GRIS-BRUN titled and dated upper left MOLINARI, 9/72 , and titled on a label on the reverse acrylic on canvas 114.3 by 101.6 cm. 45 by 40 in.

Marie-Eve Beaupré, Molinari Painting and Colour, Montreal, 2008, p. 12

The Canada Council Art Bank Catalogue, Ottawa, 1975, p. 27

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa

Re-purchased by the artist

Private Collection, Montreal

Molinari's career as a painter spanned five decades, during which time he examined the process of perception and delved deeply into the mechanics of colour and structure. By the late 1970s, Molinari was moving away from the series of paintings that were vertical bands of colour to

... the introduction of triangular forms within the grid underlying pictorial organization, which enabled the flattening out of planes. In this way, the monumental size of the works obliges the viewer to plunge straight into the colours in order to discern the optical effects activated by the juxtaposition. We can infer that Molinari's concept of painting was not exclusively an environment of the artist's relationship to the world, but of his relationship with his artistic medium.