How a humble print store in Cannes helped write modern art history

Natja Igney | Rivierabuzz | 18th March 2026

Printmakers doesn’t get many accolades. Galerie Maeght is an exception, having for decades produced lithographs and books by a who’s who of 20^th century art. From the gallery’s origins in 1946, printmaking was a primary focus, a “laboratory” that produced ideas. Giacometti, for example, saw prints not as illustrations of his sculptures but as “siblings”. Further, such prints are “extraordinarily refined” and a way of making art – “collaborative, experimental, craft-rooted, unhurried – that has largely disappeared”.