To celebrate this anniversary, the Maeght Foundation is presenting a special exhibition entitled “Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship”. From 29 June to 6 October, the exhibition focuses on the friendly and respectful relationship between Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, and traces their links with the Maeght family, for whom the two artist-friends embodied two geniuses of the 20th century, sharing with them the great – and more trivial – moments of life.

The exhibition is organised around a number of themes, and features a wealth of rare works and documents on loan for the occasion. The exhibition explores the specific characters of the two masters, but also, by mirror effect, the particularities of each in their approach to the same subjects: self-portraits, the street, the light of the Midi, the painter and his model…

The Foundation, whose history reminds us that all artistic disciplines intersect, is finally planning a month of celebrations to mark its sixtieth anniversary, from the end of June until 28 July, the anniversary of its inauguration in 1964, which was marked by a memorable concert featuring Ella Fitzgerald and Yves Montand. In 2024, the Maeght Foundation will once again be staging dance, concerts, readings, documentary films on Bonnard and Matisse, lectures, children’s workshops and more.

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