Word: maeght
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French Riviera last week came a new attraction that is guaranteed to win $00 in anybody's Guide Michelin of artistic treasures. After five years of work, the museum put up by Flemish-French Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (pronounced Mag) is finished, furnished and open to the public...
...slope; atop the roof, flying scoops shaped like quarter-cylinders trap the harsh Mediterranean light, diffuse it through milky glass, and bounce it off vaults inside to soften it further. Six galleries are devoted respectively to Bonnard, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Chagall, Braque and Miró; the paintings are from Maeght's collection or gifts from the artists...
Hammer Blow. Chagall designed the menu for the opening banquet; Miró designed scarves and handed them out to the ladies. Maeght's granddaughters presented the keys to the museum-the first public foundation of its kind in France-to Culture Minister André Malraux on a red satin cushion...
...builder is Paris's Flemish-French Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (pronounced Mag), who had long owned a wooded hilltop a mile from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the Cóte d'Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...
Begun in 1959, the museum is now filling up with a heady collection of modern masters: soon there will be a dozen Mirós, Giacomettis by the ton, Chagalls, Kandinskys and Braques - all from Maeght's famous collection. The museum will open next year...