“The Radiance of the Day”: Making Modern Art on the French Riviera
Dr Charlotte de Mille
Thursday 29 – Saturday 31 May 2025
£495
Course description
The iridescent French Riviera has long been both an inspirational magnet and a refuge for artists. Based in Nice, this tour explores the iconic sites from early to mid-twentieth-century modernism that have made the region so famous for visual art.
We shall start with two giants, the Musée Matisse in Nice and Musée Picasso in Antibes. Here we shall consider not only the impact of Cézanne, but over a long Riviera lunch take in the profound impact of Mediterranean light and Southern warmth in the development of Modernist French art and the adoption of an Arcadian and utopian vision. On day two we shall visit the Foundation Marguérite et Aimée Maeght in St Paul de Vence, a remarkable collection of twentieth-century art in an idyllic setting, and Matisse’s Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence. There will be the option of a lunch together at the Colombe d’Or, where artists famously exchanged paintings for lunch or an overnight stay. On our final day we shall visit the holiday retreats of Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier in Roquebrune Cap-Martin, as well as the museum dedicated to Chagall in Nice itself.
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Lecturer's biography
Dr Charlotte de Mille curates The Courtauld Gallery’s music programme. With the Gallery she co-authored Animating Art History, a joint initiative with Central St. Martin’s and the University for the Creative Arts, which was long-listed for a Clore Award in Museum Learning. She was Visiting Scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2018, and Mid-Career Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art 2019-20. She is Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld teaching the MA Music and the Visual Arts. She edited Music and Modernism (2011) and is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Music and Art (2023). Her book Bergson in Britain: Modern Art and Philosophy was published by EUP in the autumn of 2023. She is co-director of the project Intersections of Music and Art in Europe 1950-2000, with the Fondazione Cini, Venice.