Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship Fondation Maeght

France’s first foundation for modern and contemporary art, the Maeght Foundation will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary in the summer of 2024. Created in 1964 by art dealers, publishers and lithographers Marguerite and Aimé Maeght, it was inaugurated in Saint-Paul-de-Vence by André Malraux and immediately recognised as a public utility. This anniversary will be marked by a major summer exhibition, “Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship”, the inauguration of new exhibition rooms devoted this year to the permanent collection, and a month of celebrations featuring concerts, dance performances, film screenings, readings, etc.

Over 60 years and more than 150 exhibitions of works by the great artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Maeght Foundation has left its mark on the history and dissemination of art through its own distinctive approach. The prism of friendship that unites the Maeght family, the Fondation and the artists, allows us to tell the story of art far from the traditional bookish approach: art and life are constantly linked, from exhibitions to Nuits de la Fondation (dance, theatre, music…), picnics, big meals and boat trips… But wasn’t it the artists themselves who pushed the Maeght couple to overcome the pain of losing their second son by taking a long trip to the United States in the 1950s? Then by creating the Foundation inspired by the great American references they were visiting at the time? Barnes, Guggenheim, Phillips…

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