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Côte d’Azur French Riviera 2013 PRESS KIT Art & the Côte d'Azur ART & THE CÔTE D’AZUR 2013 A land of hospitality for the greatest artists of the 20th century, the French Riviera will be in the spotlight in 2013, to pay tribute to its Great Masters: Matisse, Chagall and Picasso as well as Jean Cocteau, of course. Nice will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Chagall Museum and 50th anniversary of the Matisse Museum, but will also be honouring Picasso and Cocteau for the 40th and 50th anniversary of their deaths. Many of the Riviera’s towns and villages will be involved in this commemoration, while places where these artists lived or worked and Museums remember his personalities and their unique talent. Moreover, cinematographic news is also focusing on Renoir, who lived in Cagnes-sur-Mer, with a film of the same name retracing the end of his life. Here is all the pictorial and artistic news from the French Riviera along with tourist itineraries not to be missed for those who love Art and the Côte d’Azur. Enjoy your reading. SOME FIGURES The French Riviera off ers an extremely broad range of cultural institutions with over 100 museums and over 150 art galleries in the Alpes-Maritimes département and the Principality of Monaco. THE CULTURAL OFFERING ON THE RIVIERA • 3 National Museums: Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Picasso "La Guerre & la Paix". • 2 Départemental Museums (Asian Arts in Nice and Merveilles in Tende). • 15 Museums dedicated to an artistic movement, including ten on Modern and Contemporary Art. • 12 Museums dedicated to a single artist (Renoir, Peynet, Fragonard, Cocteau, Matisse, Bonnard...). • 11 Museums dedicated to a historical period. • 10 Museums dedicated to the history of a town or region. • 30 thematic museums. • 21 Museums of Folk Art and Traditions. NUMBER OF VISITORS (Figures for 2011) Nearly 11 million tourists visited the French Riviera. 3.2 million visitors to museums and monuments. THE MOST POPULAR SITES IN 2011 (Source: Côte d’Azur Touriscope 2012) • Russian Orthodox Church - Nice: 203,795 visitors. • Chagall National Museum - Nice: 153,457 visitors. • Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild - Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: 144,693 visitors. • Maeght Foundation - Saint-Paul-de-Vence: 141,391 visitors. • Exotic Garden - Èze: 140,966 visitors. • Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - Nice: 140,740 visitors. • Matisse Museum - Nice: 137,399 visitors. • Exotic Garden of Monaco: 136,130 visitors. • Picasso Museum - Antibes: 126,180 visitors. • Racecourse of Cagnes-sur-Mer: 105,532 visitors (2009). The 10 main museums and monuments represent 58% of all visitors. P. 4 ARTISTS & THE CÔTE D’AZUR, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GREAT PAINTERS... p. 5 In the footsteps of Marc Chagall: 40th anniversary of the Chagall Museum - Nice p. 6 In the footsteps of Matisse: 50th anniversary of the Matisse Museum - Nice p. 7 In the footsteps of Renoir: new in 2013 p. 8 Cocteau and the French Riviera: 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Cocteau p. 9 Picasso and the French Riviera: 40th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso p. 11 In the footsteps of Bonnard p. 12 La Côte d’Azur des Peintres ... in the Great Masters' footsteps p. 13 Baroque Route / Route des Brea P. MAIN EXHIBITIONS IN P. THE ST CENTURY AT THE HEART OF CREATION p.19 Art in the street p. 20 Intra muros p. 21 Nice, a haven for Contemporary Art p. 22 Unlikely galleries P. AROUND MUSEUMS CONTENTS p. 25 New in 2013: Nice: Opening of the Archaeological Crypt Grasse: the Museum district p. 25 Love forever p. 25 With the family p. 25 A Museum, a Garden / Museums on the theme of fl owers and fragrances p.27 Off -beat culture p. 27 Museums and new technologies P. ARCHITECTURAL ITINERARIES p. 29 Architecture and Art Deco on the French Riviera p. 29 The Russian infl uence on the French Riviera p. 29 The Belle Époque on the French Riviera p. 29 Around Gustave Eiff el and Charles Garnier CONTENTS 2 3 ARTISTS & THE CÔTE D’AZUR, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GREAT PAINTERS... IN THE FOOTSTEPS EXHIBITIONS IN THE MUSEUM OF MARC CHAGALL • CHAGALL AND BOOKS - 20 October 2012 - 11 February 2013 • MARC CHAGALL, FROM ONE WAR TO THE OTHER -22 February 2013 - TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 20 May 2013 CHAGALL MUSEUM NICE Organised in parallel with the exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris: Marc Chagall, passages between war and This lover of light and the Mediterranean land lived in Saint-Paul for nearly peace, from 20 February to 21 July 2013. 20 years, tirelessly integrating the village and its ramparts in his paintings. • MARC CHAGALL, FACING THE MIRROR, SELF-PORTRAITS, Here, Marc Chagall painted his favourite theme, love, over and over again. COUPLES & APPARITIONS - 15 June - 7 October 2013 Exhibition organised by the Marc Chagall National Museum and Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais. • CHAGALL MUSEUM, A MASTERPIECE BY ANDRÉ HERMANT SAINT-PAUL DE VENCE, 1966-1985 19 October 2013 - mid-January 2014 Marc and Valentina Chagall se led in Saint-Paul in 1966. The exhibition is organised with support from La Cité du Patrimoine There, they had a large stone house built, La Colline, designed for rest, leisure and work. It featured several studios: one for sculpture, another & de l’Architecture, in honour of the architect André Hermant. for making ceramics and a third for painting. From then on, he included the village and its ramparts in the landscapes EXTRAMURAL EXHIBITIONS he painted. The Marc Chagall National Museum also co-organises, in the summer In Saint-Paul, Marc Chagall o en portrayed his favourite theme: love. of 2013: It was not rare to see Marc Chagall having breakfast at Café de la Place or • CHAGALL, FROM THE WORD TO THE IMAGE - 22 June - 15 October 2013 lunch at La Colombe d’Or. He would meet with other artists like Picasso, Château de Villeneuve, Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence. Miró and André Verdet. • CHAGALL, PORTRAIT OF A TRAVELLER - 20 June - 15 October 2013 Unfortunately, his age made it diffi cult to stroll through the village streets. Saint-Paul de Vence, Offi ce du Tourisme. The artist le some works to the village that welcomed him and where he lived for nearly 20 years: a monumental painting, La vie (Life) in the AN EXCEPTIONAL ACQUISITION Maeght Foundation and a mosaic, Les Amoureux (The Lovers), dedicated La Route de Cranberry Lake, 1944 to Aimé and gardens. Presentation to the public of the Museum’s latest acquisition. Marguerite Maeght, an ideal couple, in the Foundation. This oil on canvas painting, acquired in a public sale in March 2012, There are also two other mosaics in the village: Le Grand Soleil, dedicated opportunely completes the Museum collections on the period of to Vava, made by Marc Chagall for his villa in Saint-Paul, and the mosaic on Chagall’s exile in America. the primary school in Saint-Paul made in 1986 a year a er the artist’s death from an original drawing by Marc Chagall, which Vava gave the municipality EVENT ORGANISED BY THE ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DU permission to reproduce as a mosaic. Chagall, who loved children, included MUSEUM Sunday 7 July 2013 at 8pm among others a child with a radiant smile, a symbol of joy. The artist, who died in 1985, is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Paul. This Forty years a er the Museum was inaugurated, the pianist Mikhail Rudy, man who so loved the Mediterranean lies in the "most Mediterranean" of who has been awarded many prizes in his international career, presents an cemeteries alongside his wife Vava and his brother-in-law Michel. innovative project in connection with arts forms other than music, on the theme of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra painted par Chagall in 1964. Stroll through Saint Paul or guided tour with L’Offi ce de Tourisme to understand Marc Chagall’s Mediterranean years and his days in EXTRAMURAL EXHIBITIONS - All over the world Saint-Paul through the evocation of his life in Saint-Paul and • Germany - Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster: CHAGALL AND commentary of his works. BOOKS, 5 October 2012 - 13 January 2013. > www.saint-pauldevence.com • Denmark - Museum for i det Off entlige Rum, Køge: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE CHURCH, 6 October 2012 - 24 February 2013. MARC CHAGALL NATIONAL MUSEUM IN NICE • Japan - travelling exhibition, Hokkaido, Hiroshima, Osaka and Tokyo: In 1973, the Marc Chagall National Biblical Message Museum opened CHAGALL POSTWAR, 29 June 2013 - 18 May 2014. to the public. Forty years later, its collections have been enriched with many non-Biblical works and this name change validates its vocation to IN FRANCE, PARTICIPATION THROUGH LOANS display all Chagall’s works. In 2013, the Museum will celebrate its fortieth • City of Paris Museum of Modern Art: ART IN WAR. FRANCE 1938- anniversary with many events. 1947. FROM PICASSO TO DUBUFFET, 12 October 2012 - 17 February 2013 > www.musee-chagall.fr • Marseille, MUCEM, for the opening in May 2013. The Marc Chagall National Museum, dedicated to a single theme by a • Roubaix - La Piscine - Museum of Art & Industry of Roubaix: single artist, arose from the artist’s will to bring together in a single place CHAGALL, THE DEPTH OF DREAMS, 13 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 - built for that purpose his most ambitious work on the Bible: seventeen Dallas Museum of Art, 17 February - 26 May 2013. paintings making up the Biblical Message. • Paris - Musée du Luxembourg: MARC CHAGALL, PASSAGE This "home" Chagall wanted to open to art lovers from all over the world BETWEEN WAR & PEACE, 20 February - 21 July 2013. was made possible by personal support from André Malraux, one of the painter’s long-time friends and Minister of Cultural Aff airs in 1966 when construction of the museum began.