Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire Marseille at the Moment: Still Lifes January 28, 2016The Musée Regards de Provence is always worth visiting. The current exhibition, Vies Silencieuses, focuses on still-life paintings, many from the gallery’s collection of provencal art. But it starts with some 16th-century Dutch paintings, which are amazing in their faithful detail and feature peonies, stripy tulips, dewdrops, and butterflies.…Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire La Commanderie de Peyrassol Modern Art in a Provencal Vineyard July 26, 2018Here’s a suggestion for an interesting art lover’s outing, about an hour’s drive from Aix-en-Provence. La Commanderie de Peyrassol is not only a successful Var vineyard producing 500,000 bottles of wine a year but is a fast-growing contemporary sculpture park. Continue reading here for details from Lynne’s visit to this vineyard’s modern art collection. There are diverse …Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Inspire · J. Christina Treasures of the French Riviera: Musée National Marc Chagall May 30, 2018Situated on the southeast coast of the French Riviera, Nice, France hardly needs an introduction as one of the most beautiful and sophisticated regions in the world. Nice is the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes Cote d’Azur – often referred to as the Queen of the French Riviera. Whether you call it the Côte d’Azur …Continue Reading
Guest Post · Inspire · What's On Provence & Cote d'Azur Museums of Avignon Musées Mirabilis is the Big Summer Show June 12, 2018The wonderfully creative Arlésien designer Christian Lacroix has been given free rein to choose items from the museums of Avignon for ‘Mirabilis’, the summer show. And ‘marvellous’ it surely will be: visitors can see 350 to 400 works, documents and collections, from prehistory to ethnic collections to modern art, in unusual groupings of works of art from …Continue Reading
