The Mediterranean coast of France witnessed the rise and development of modern art over a century, from Cézanne in the 1860s to Matisse, Picasso and Klein in the 1950s and 1960s. These artists and the many more featured here discovered an inexhaustible source of inspiration in this storied region, whose glittering, languid sea stretches out towards the far horizon beneath brilliant azure skies. Indelibly associated with the classical past, this magical land of eternal spring and spiritual renewal came to signify a state of mind, and avant-garde artists sought to convey the vitality and élan it inspired in them through new paradigms of modernist invention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The story of how the Côte d’Azur dazzled modern art’s great innovators – among them Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Klein. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from 2 October, 2026 to 31 January, 2027, moving to the Cleveland Museum of Art from March, 2027.
Foreword by REBECCA SALTER CBE PRA and WILLIAM GRISWOLD
\nSponsor’s preface
\nAcknowledgements
\nPainting Paradise
\nKENNETH E. SILVER
\nMonet and the Mediterranean: ‘a palette of diamonds and jewels’
\nRICHARD THOMSON
\nHenri Matisse and the Côte d’Azur: A Continent Without Borders
\nAYMERIC JEUDY
\nPierre Bonnard and the Mediterranean
\nBELINDA THOMSON
\nPicasso’s Mediterranean
\nMARILYN MCCULLY
\n‘Brutal Sunshine’: Writing on the French Riviera
\nHEATHER LEMONEDES BROWN
\nPicasso’s Meridian
\nJEAN-LOUIS ANDRAL
\nCinema and the Côte d’Azur
\nWILLIAM H. ROBINSON
\nCatalogue plates, with section introductions by
\nANN DUMAS AND HEATHER LEMONEDES BROWN
\n1 Cezanne and the Impressionists
\n2 Claude Monet
\n3 Neo-Impressionism on the Côte d’Azur
\n4 The Fauves
\n5 Pierre Bonnard
\n6 The 1920s
\n7 Pablo Picasso Prewar
\n8 Visitors to the Coast
\n9 Pablo Picasso Postwar
\n10 Nicolas de Staël
\n11 Yves Klein
\nEndnotes
\nBibliography and sources
\nLenders to the exhibition
\nPhotographic acknowledgements
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