“The French Riviera is the playground of the rich, the famous, and those who appreciate the finer things in life.”

Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne were attracted from the 1870s onwards by the scenery and the light of the French Riviera.

The 1920s were a golden decade when Picasso and Matisse painted there and Scott Fitzgerald based his book ‘Tender is the Night’ on the American artist Gerald Murphy.

Raoul Dufy’s free-flowing style captured the essence of the Riviera, and Matisse’s amazing chapel at Vence concludes our story.