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...year-round residents. Usually their paintings were shipped north to the big art galleries of Paris; only in recent years has a host of small museums displaying works by resident greats in a leisurely ambiance sprung up along the Mediterranean. Most recent and best is the small but elaborate Maeght museum (see color), which opened last summer on the French Riviera, has already drawn over 80,000 visitors...
Strolling Ghosts. Tucked away in the hills high above the Mediterranean at Saint-Paul-de-Vence and commanding one of the most breathtaking views on the entire coast, the new museum is a gift to France from Paris Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (rhymes with jog). Having made a fortune in the postwar boom selling the works of Chagall, Miró, Kandinsky, Braque and Giacometti, Maeght decided to enlist his artists' aid in building a showcase for their paintings and sculptures. Thus Giacometti was able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today...
...rooms displaying paintings have no windows; the brilliant light of Provence streams through filters in the ceiling. "I had a holy horror," says Maeght, "of trying to look at a painting streaked by rays of the sun." So that visitors may "wash their eyes" between, say, a room of Braques and a room of Mirós, spacious views open out onto a grassy patio or a lily-padded pool. Blending all these delightful and special touches into a bold structure that wholly integrates architecture with painting and sculpture was Catalonian Architect José Luis Sert, dean of the Harvard...
...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...