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Provence and Côte d'Azur : Top 10 Masterpieces of Provence

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Top 10 Top 10 Masterpieces of Provence

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  • 1. Café du Soir

    Vincent van Gogh painted more than 300 canvases in the town of Arles (see Roman Arles). Café du Soir (1888) is one of the best known.

  • 2. La Joie de Vivre

    This 1946 work is one of Picasso’s most important from his Antibes period.

  • 3. La Partie de Campagne

    Fernand Léger overlays bold colours on bold, comic-book outlines in this 1954 painting.

  • 4. Nu Bleu IV

    The 1952 work is among the best known of Matisse’s blue paper cut-outs series.

  • 5. St-Tropez, la Place des Lices et le Café des Arts

    Charles Camoin evokes the St-Tropez of 1925.

  • 6. L’Orage

    Pointillist Paul Signac’s 1895 work glowingly depicts St-Tropez harbour.

  • 7. La Montagne SainteVictoire au Grand Pin

    This 1887 painting is one of Cézanne’s most renowned images of the Provence mountain (see Mont Sainte-Victoire).

  • 8. The Burning Bush

    Nicolas Froment’s 1476 triptych in the Cathédrale de St-Saveur (see Cathédrale St-Sauveur) was commissioned by Provence’s last king, René.

  • 9. Jetée Promenade à Nice

    Portraying an evening stroll on the esplanade, the 1928 work is Dufy at his colourful best.

  • 10. Venus Victrix

    One of Renoir’s finest bronzes (1914) stands amid the olive groves at Les Collettes.

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