Encouraged by Georges Braque to imagine the creation of an art place where artists would meet, in order to overcome the death in 1953 of their son Bernard, at 12, of leukemia, the Maeght couple invented the Maeght Foundation, inaugurated on July 28, 1964 by André Malraux. This was the response of earthly paradise to misfortune. Aimé and Marguerite Maeght are the main publishers and art dealers in post-war Europe. They ask the Catalan architect Josep Lluis Sert, who carried out Joan Miro's studio in Palma de Mallorca, to design a place for and with the artists. They have just built a Provencal house on the Gardettes hill which will take the name of Mas Bernard.
"You have to do something that is beyond you and helps you overcome your pain"
, advises them Braque who often joins them at Mas Bernard.
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Painters and sculptors have collaborated with the Catalan architect by creating works integrated into the building and into nature.
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