Collection - Fondation Guido Molinari

The Guido Molinari Foundation inherited nearly all of the artist’s paintings in his possession at the time of his death, and all of his works on paper, namely drawings and prints, including both multiples and single images. The Foundation also received as a legacy the artist’s collection of some 200 works by other artists.

Mutation vert-rouge (detail), 1964, acrylic on canvas, 200,5 cm x 244, coll. Fondation Guido Molinari, © SODRAC Photo : Guy L’Heureux.

Paintings

The Foundation’s storerooms hold nearly 600 paintings which amply reflect all of Molinari’s creative periods, from the early representational works of 1947 all the way through his final series, Hommage à Mallarmé, from early 2003.

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Untitled (détail), gouache on paper, 50,7 x 66 cm, coll. Fondation Guido Molinari, © SODRAC Photo : Guy L’Heureux.

Unique works on paper

Guido Molinari created many drawings as a countercheck to his painted works, notably during the Nineteen Fifties, but then again in the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. Most are ink on paper, but the artist was also known to use watercolour, charcoal, pastel, gouache, oils, Duco, and various crayons. The Foundation has some eight hundred of these.

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Prints

Molinari’s printed works – principally silkscreens – are as numerous as they are little-known, since the artist never bothered to promote them adequately. This corpus of prints presents a different perspective from which to analyse the large paintings, and vice versa. The Foundation, which possesses over two thousand sheets of some one hundred different images, fully intends to rectify this state of things.

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