Miro, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aime Maeght and his artists

Date: 4 Oct 2008 - 2 Jan 2009

Time: 10am - 6pm (10pm Fri)

Town/City: The Royal Academy of Arts, London

This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works selected from the Fondation maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.  The exhibition tells the story of the remarkable role played in the history of twentieth-century art by Aime Maeght, the outstanding art-dealer, exhibition-maker and publisher.  With his wife Marguerite, Maeght founded the celebrated Galerie Maeght in Paris at the end of 1945.  The Gallery, which embodied an adventurous new spirit in post war Paris, opened with a show of Matisse's drawings, and in 1947 mounted the notorious "Surrealisme en 1947" exhibition, organised by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp.  During the years that followed, the gallery hosted significant exhibitions of the work of many artists, focussing particularly on Miro, Calder, Giacometti and Braque, who were most closely linked to the gallery and to the Maeght family.

To book tickets in advance please tel: 0870 848 8484 or visit www.royalacademy.org.uk.

Groups of 10 or more are asked to book in advance, please tel: 020 7300 8027, fax: 020 7300 8084 or email: groupbookings@royalacademy.org.uk