The back story
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Art trail
The art trail: the back story
From Arles to Menton: Van Gogh, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Léger, Bonnard and Cocteau, museum by museum.
Art trail · French Riviera
The Riviera Art Trail: From Van Gogh to Cocteau
Van Gogh’s Arles, Renoir’s Cagnes, Bonnard’s Le Cannet, Picasso’s Antibes and Vallauris, Léger’s Biot, the Fondation Maeght, Matisse and Chagall in Nice and Cocteau in Menton.
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Van Gogh in Arles
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Van Gogh’s hospital garden
Espace Van Gogh, Arles
The former Hôtel-Dieu of Arles, whose courtyard garden Van Gogh painted.
Renoir, Bonnard and the Fondation Maeght
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Renoir’s last home
Musée Renoir, Les Collettes
Renoir’s house and studios among the olive trees of Les Collettes.
19 chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-MerExplore View on map
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Les Toilettes de Marthe, to 31 Oct 2026
Musée Bonnard
Bonnard in Le Cannet, the town above Cannes where he lived and painted.
16 boulevard Sadi-Carnot, 06110 Le CannetExplore View on map
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France’s first independent art foundation
Fondation Maeght
Giacometti, Miró and Chagall among the pines above Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
Chemin des Gardettes, 06570 Saint-Paul-de-VenceExplore View on map
Picasso and Léger
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On the ramparts
Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi
Picasso in the castle where he worked, on the sea walls of Antibes.
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Picasso’s chapel
Musée national Pablo Picasso – La Guerre et la Paix
Picasso’s War and Peace on the vault of a chapel in Vallauris.
Matisse and Chagall
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Matisse – Alex Katz, to 18 Jan 2027
Musée Matisse
Matisse in a red Genoese villa among the olive groves of Cimiez.
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Closed Tuesdays
Musée national Marc Chagall
Chagall’s Biblical Message in a museum he helped to design.
Saint-Tropez
Cocteau in Menton
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On the seafront
Musée Jean Cocteau, Le Bastion
Cocteau in the old bastion on the seafront at Menton.
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