'Painting the French Riviera' exhibition at The Royal Academy

BGUK_3698428 - Exhibition runs from 2 October 26 to 31 January 2027 Painting the French Riviera is a major exhibition exploring the rise and development of modern art on the Mediterranean coast of France from the 1870s to the 1960s. Bringing together over 120 paintings, sculptures and drawings, as well as film, books and travel posters, the exhibition will examine how artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Yves Klein found inexhaustible inspiration in the brilliant light, azure skies and luminous sea in the unspoilt Eden that was the South of France. Spanning nearly 90 years, the exhibition will trace the transformation of the Mediterranean coast into one of the defining landscapes of modern art. More than simply a place of retreat, the Riviera came to symbolise an ideal of artistic and spiritual renewal, inspiring artists to develop bold new ways of representing their surroundings. Painting the French Riviera will focus on key moments and figures that made significant contributions to the history of modern art. Artworks photographed: - Claude Monet 'Antibes Seen from the Salis Gardens' and 'View of Ventimiglia' - Yves Klein 'Untitled Blue Monochrome' and 'Untitled Anthropmetry' -' Jean Cocteau 'Le Train Bleu' - Paul Signac 'Women at the Well, Opus' - Pablo Picasso 'Bay of Cannes' - Nicolas de Stael 'Landscape' - Theo van Rysselberghe 'Big Clouds' - Paul Cezanne 'Bathers' - Alexander Archipenko 'Seated Figure' & 'Seated Woman Combing Her Hair'