Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists
4 Oct 2008—2 Jan 2009
In the Sackler Wing of GalleriesSponsored by BNP Paribas
The Royal Academy presents an exhibition demonstrating the achievement of the famous Galerie Maeght. Featuring works by Miró, Calder, Giacometti and Braque, this exhibition reflects the freshness, optimism and inventiveness of the art that took post-war Paris by storm.
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Highlights from the Royal Academy Collection
In the John Madejski Fine RoomsFree
The Royal Academy's Collection of art, architecture and sculpture dates from the mid 18th
century to the present day. It includes works by renowned artists such as Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Stanley Spencer and David Hockney.
Highlights from the Collection are on show in the John Madejski Fine Rooms. The current exhibition is From All Walks of Life: Genre Paintings from the Royal Academy Collection.
Video: An introduction to the John Madejski Fine Rooms
Photo: Paul Highnam
Also on:
The Young Lion: Early Drawings by John Frederick Lewis RA (1804 – 1876)
Until 26 Oct 2008
Free
Diverse Minds: Photographic Portraits from the Architecture Programme
Until 09 Jan 2009
Free
Stephen Chambers RA: Prints
Until 10 Dec 2008
Free
Maeght and his magicians
Art critic Richard Cork first visited the Fondation Maeght as a teenager in the Sixties.The work on display there, and indeed the building itself, had a profound effect on him. To mark a major exhibition of modernism at the RA, he recalls his impressions of this ground-breaking gallery and celebrates Aimé Maeght, its visionary founder.
Read this article in RA Magazine