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Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists

Bronze, 270 x 54 x 36 cm

4 Oct 2008—2 Jan 2009

In the Sackler Wing of Galleries

Sponsored 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

Lord Leighton PRA, The Sluggard, 1885. Plaster.  © Royal Academy of Arts, London. In the John Madejski Fine Rooms

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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

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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.

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Show photo credits

View of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght. Joan Miró, 'Personnage', 1970. Takis, 'Signal Eolien (sphères)', 2005 / Collection Fondation Takis-KETE. Alexander Calder, 'Les renforts', 1963. Photo: Jean-Jacques L'Héritier. © Archives Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul (France)

 

Unknown artist, Incense burner in the shape of a church, 10th–11th century. Silver partially gilded, 36 cm. Procuratoria di San Marco, Venezia. Photo per gentile concessione della Procuratoria di San Marco/Cameraphoto Arte, Venice