Sunshine and colour

摘要

When Aime Maeght, a French art dealer, lost his young son to leukaemia in the 1950s, a trio of formidable modern painters-Georges Braque, Joan Miro and Fernand Leger-persuaded him to turn the family's summer retreat above the hills of Nice into an artists' haven. The Marguerite and Aime Maeght Foundation is 50 years old this month, and still bears abundant traces of the artists who made it happen: a magical Miro labyrinth, mosaics and stained glass by Braque. Its collection of 12,000 works includes 35 sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, as well as masterpieces by Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Miro, Leger and Alexander Calder, among others. On average, 200,000 visitors tour its colourful galleries and garden every year.