.Chagall and the Maeght Foundation

Marc Chagall, André Malraux and Aimé Maeght, the evening of the inauguration of the Maeght Foundation, July 1964.

Aimé Maeght, orphaned during the First World War, was picked up by the Red Cross in his northern region and moved to the Cévennes. After the death of his father and his uprooting, he made it a strength and worked intensely to live your passions.

After years of battling illness, his son Bernard died at age 12. Instead of complaining, crying in public, isolating themselves in the ease acquired after years of work, with Marguerite, my grandmother, they chose life and wanted to leave an immortal work.

This is how, from the death of their beloved son, the Maeght Foundation was born. This is why there is a chapel dedicated to Saint Bernard in the Foundation.

Their friend Marc Chagall, for this life, for the Foundation, created his greatest painting, he will never create a larger, more intense, more important one.

Marc Chagall, in his studio, working on what will remain his greatest painting, Life, which he completed for the opening of the Maeght Foundation in 1964.

Marc Chagall, Life, 1964.

For the Maeght Foundation, Marc Chagall created a mosaic representing Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, it faces the visitors' entrance, as if the Maeght couple were welcoming everyone.

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