[3] As a youth, Maeght studied art and music, training as a lithographer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes.

Maeght made his Paris debut as a major art dealer on the Rue de Teheran in 1945, after World War II.

[5] He also represented Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, and Fernand Léger.

[6] With his wife, Marguerite, he established the Fondation Maeght, a privately funded museum devoted to 20th-century art, in the South of France.

[2] The building was designed by the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, houses more than 12,000 pieces of art and attracts "on average, 200,000 visitors ... every year".