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Riviera’s light inspired modern art’s greatest innovators.
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Summary
The story of how the Côte d’Azur dazzled modern art’s great innovators - among them Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Klein.
The Mediterranean coast of France and Catalonia 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 tow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915815248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 191581524X |
| Author: | Jean-Louis Andral, Ann Dumas, Aymeric Jeudy, Heather Lemonedes, Marilyn McCully, William H. Robinson, Kenneth E. Silver, Belinda Thomson, Richard Thomson |
| Publisher: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Imprint: | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 300mm x 280mm |
About The Author
Jean-Louis Andral
- Jean-Louis Andral is Chief Curator and Director of the Musée Picasso, Antibes.
- Heather Lemonedes Brown is Curator of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Ann Dumas is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Consultant Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Aymeric Jeudy is Director of the Musée Matisee, Nice.
- Marilyn McCully has organised numerous international exhibitions and written widely about Picasso.
- William H. Robinson was Curator of Modern European Art and Head of the Department of European and American Painting and Sculpture at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Kenneth E. Silver is Professor of Art History Emeritus at New York University.
- Belinda Thomson is an independent art historian who specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art.
- Richard Thomson is Professor in History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art.
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