Painting the French Riviera

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.

• Foreword by REBECCA SALTER CBE PRA and WILLIAM GRISWOLD Sponsor’s preface Acknowledgements Painting Paradise KENNETH E. SILVERMonet and the Mediterranean: ‘a palette of diamonds and jewels’ RICHARD THOMSONHenri Matisse and the Côte d’Azur: A Continent Without Borders AYMERIC JEUDYPierre Bonnard and the Mediterranean BELINDA THOMSONPicasso’s Mediterranean MARILYN MCCULLY‘Brutal Sunshine’: Writing on the French Riviera HEATHER LEMONEDES BROWNPicasso’s Meridian JEAN-LOUIS ANDRALCinema and the Côte d’Azur WILLIAM H. ROBINSONCatalogue plates, with section introductions byANN DUMAS AND HEATHER LEMONEDES BROWN1 Cezanne and the Impressionists 2 Claude Monet 3 Neo-Impressionism on the Côte d’Azur 4 The Fauves 5 Pierre Bonnard 6 The 1920s 7 Pablo Picasso Prewar 8 Visitors to the Coast 9 Pablo Picasso Postwar10 Nicolas de Staël 11 Yves Klein Endnotes Bibliography and sources Lenders to the exhibition Photographic acknowledgements Index