Pair Of Paintings By Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) Paysages Du Lot Et Garonne Agen Bordeaux

I present a series of 6 previously unpublished paintings by the famous painter Pierre Molinier* (1900-1976) from a Breton estate, purchased from the heirs at Drouot around 1950-1960.
Pair of paintings depicting a typical Southwestern chapel with its triangular, probably Romanesque bell tower, and a countryside landscape in the same region, circa 1920-1930.
The colors are fresh and shimmering.
signed lower left.
the frames are probably original.
the unframed panels measure approx. 40 cm x 32 cm.
These paintings are authentic and an invoice will be enclosed showing their provenance.
delivery included by chronopost d+1 with insurance and delivery against signature for France.
Europe €50.
Rest of the world 100 €.
*Pierre Molinier, born April 13, 1900 in Agen and died March 3, 1976 in Bordeaux, was a French photographer, painter and poet.
He is best known for his erotic paintings and photomontages, staging his own body and cross-dressing self-portraits to express his cult of androgyny and leg fetishism.
His singular, enigmatic work influenced European and North American body artists in the early 1970s, and continues to attract the attention of artists, critics and collectors today.
In 1919, Pierre Molinier settled in Bordeaux as an artisan painter. He worked as a house painter until 1960.
From the 1920s to the end of the 1940s, his painting was figurative, with classic themes: landscapes of the Lot-et-Garonne region, still lifes, portraits - notably of his daughter Françoise - and self-portraits. His work from nature and his search for structure, color and light in landscapes bring him closer to Impressionism, while his portraits are more reminiscent of Expressionism. A member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants Bordelais since 1928, he exhibits regularly at its salons.
At the end of 1951, at the XXth Salon des Indépendants Bordelais, he presented Le Grand Combat, a half-abstract, half-figurative painting evoking contorted bodies and entwined limbs. Deemed indecent, the painting was veiled at the exhibition, and became the motive for a dramatic break with Bordeaux society.
In early 1955, Molinier sent reproductions of his paintings and poems to André Breton. Breton gave him an enthusiastic welcome, assured him of his support and offered to exhibit his work in Paris. Pierre Molinier exhibited 18 paintings at the À l'Étoile scellée gallery from January 27 to February 17, 1956, including Le Grand Combat, Succube, Comtesse Midralgar and Les dames voilées; the catalog was prefaced by Breton.
Later, Molinier composed the cover for the 2nd issue of the magazine Le Surréalisme même and, invited by Breton, exhibited a painting at the 8th Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme dedicated to Eros.
A member of the Surrealist group from 1955 to 1969, Pierre Molinier remained on the bangs of Surrealism. Breton distanced himself after receiving a pornographic greeting card from Molinier.
From the 1960s onwards, Pierre Molinier devoted himself entirely to his plastic and photographic work, in particular to self-portraits using a photomontage process.
His process consists of taking photographs of himself dressed up - waxed, made-up, often masked with a wolf and clad in a few black accessories: guêpière or corset, gloves, stockings and stiletto pumps, sometimes a veil or fishnet or top hat - as well as photographs of friends and models, then cutting out the silhouettes or body parts and recomposing them in a final collage photograph, an ideal image of himself.
Pierre Molinier focuses on his own body, and his work is entirely devoted to eroticism. This is evidenced by a short film by Raymond Borde in 1962 (Molinier, 21 min), which was publicly screened in Bordeaux in 1966 at the Festival Cinématographique organized by Alain Natalis and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou (whose poster reproduces Pierre Molinier's work Le Grand Combat N°2), and an interview conducted by Pierre Chaveau in 1972, published in 2003.
In 1974, Pierre Molinier took part in the exhibition Transformer. Aspekte der Travestie at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland. Following this exhibition, he made contact with the artist Luciano Castelli, for whom he produced a series of photographs in Bordeaux. The following year, he met Thierry Agullo, another young artist who became, as well as a close friend, the model for two other series: the first on the theme of indecency; the second, on the theme of the androgynous, consisting of 60 shots of Thierry Agullo as Thérèse, taken at the end of February 1976.
Pierre Molinier took his own life by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol on March 3, 1976.
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