Brigitte Mavromichalis was born in Stockholm in 1926 into a family of higher Swedish society.
At the age of 20 she was sent to Switzerland by her parents to pursue an academic education at
the University of Lausanne. There she met her future husband who was of Greek origin. The
couple who loved traveling and culture kept their Swiss residence but toured the world and
visited countless museums. After her husband's death in 1982 Mavromichalis continued to devote
herself to her passion for art music and sport excelled in bridge at an international level
and remained a discreet patron of the arts until her demise in 2015. She put together her art
collection which grew over the decades in utter freedom and free of any hierarchy in media
style and people. It consisted mainly of paintings but also included drawings and prints and
was characterized by great diversity. In 2023 the Musée d'art du Valais in Sion received a
bequest of 45 works from Brigitte Mavromichalis's collection. This book reflects the diversity
of this legacy. It portrays the collector and her bequest: all these works are explained by
distinguished art historians in concise texts.
