Education
As a youth, Maeght studied art and music
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As a youth, Maeght studied art and music
He founded the Galerie Maeght in Paris and Barcelona, and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice (southern France). The surname Maeght is pronounced mahg In France. His first commercial encounter in the art world came in 1930, when Pierre Bonnard came to his Cannes shop and had Maeght print a program for a Maurice Chevalier concert with a Bonnard lithograph.
After the programs were produced, Maeght put the lithograph in the print-shop window.
A quick sale encouraged the artist to give him a second picture. Maeght made his Paris debut as a major art dealer on the Rue de Teheran in 1945, after World World War World War II On sale were all the paintings done by Henri Matisse during the war.
He also represented Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, and collaborated with Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger. The building was designed by the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, houses more than 12,000 pieces of art and attracts "on average, 200,000 visitors.. every year".