.Maeght Foundation - Georges Braque
Georges Braque and Aimé Maeght.
Georges Braque was my grandfather's mentor, he exhibited at the Galerie Maeght from 1945 and until his death in 1963.
Excerpt from the Maeght Saga
"When Braque came to join me in Saint-Paul, a month after the death of my little boy, I was in the depths of despair. He said to me: “Since you so want to do something that goes beyond commerce arts that you seem to despise, as I understand you, do something here, something which would not have a speculative aim, which would allow us artists to exhibit sculpture and painting in the best possible conditions of light and space. Do it, I will help you.
Aimé Maeght
In a patio of the Maeght Foundation, the pool imagined by Braque, where mosaic fish of incredible modernity, or rather should I say fabulous timelessness, swim.
A light trickle of water flows constantly to crease the surface, so the fish appear to be wriggling.
Maeght Foundation, architecture by Josep-Lluis Sert and mosaic pool by Georges Braque.
The signature is, in itself, already a masterpiece.
Chapel of the Maeght Foundation, stained glass window by Georges Braque and Spanish Christ.
Why a chapel in a contemporary art museum? But these are the bases for the creation of this temple of beauty and creation.
Why a chapel in a contemporary art museum? But these are the bases for the creation of this temple of beauty and creation.
Georges Braque, Stained glass window of the Maeght Foundation.
