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Current bid: $1,500 CAD
Bidding History
Paddle # Date Amount
823011 17-Oct-2022 06:17:24 PM $1,500

LOT h020

AANFM LP QMG RCA SAPQ
1933 - 2004
Canadian

Sans titre
lithograph on paper
signed, editioned 7/18, dated 2001 and embossed with the Fondation Guido Molinari and the Atelier Circulaire Montréal blindstamps and on verso inscribed "5028"
27 5/8 x 21 in, 70.2 x 53.3 cm

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 CAD

Sold for: $1,875

Preview at: Heffel Montreal

PROVENANCE
Fondation Guido Molinari, Montreal

LITERATURE
Bernard Teyssèdre, Un quantificateur de Molinari, May 24, 1995
David Burnett, Guido Molinari: Works on Paper, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 1981, page 71


Please note: this work is unframed. The full sheet size is 35 1/4 x 25 inches.

Molinari’s Noirs et Blancs series of paintings dates from 1956 and was accompanied by a few silkscreen prints as well. He would reprint more of them later, including some from that series. Reservations were widely expressed about the series when it was introduced, and even the artist would occasionally have his doubts. In time, however, the 1956 series was accepted as the ultimate incarnation of the principles set forth in the manifesto of Les Plasticiens , which likely explains critic Rodolphe de Repentigny’s spontaneous enthusiasm for it, he being the author of that manifesto. High-profile historians like Serge Lemoine and Bernard Teyssèdre – both leading interpreters of American abstract art – would later speak of the absolute originality of the works, “unparalleled in North American art at the time,” whose “significance only became apparent ten years later with the development of Minimalism in New York.”

The works further cemented the position of black and white in the production of a painter recognized as a consummate master of colour. “What is presented ,” wrote art historian David Burnett in the catalogue for the exhibition Guido Molinari: Works on Paper, “is a limited structure of optical ambiguity, a reversibility between the black and white in which neither gains final dominance. There is no division between figure and ground, for the whole is both figure and ground.”

Consignor proceeds from the sale of this Lot will benefit the Guido Molinari Foundation.

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