French Riviera and Its Artists by John Baxter

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For a century, the French Riviera has been the playground — and the studio — of the world’s greatest artists. In this vivid cultural history, John Baxter explores how the Côte d’Azur’s luminous light and easy glamour drew Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall to its shores, and inspired Fitzgerald and Hemingway to set their most famous scenes there. Baxter, a longtime observer of French life, captures it all with irresistible anecdote.

Baxter traces the Riviera’s transformation from a quiet Mediterranean coast into a legend of art, literature, love, and reinvention — the wild parties and passionate affairs, the studios and villas where modern art was born, and the expatriate dream the region came to embody. He captures the wild parties and passionate affairs, the studios and villas where modern art was born, and the expatriate dream that the region came to embody.

Lively, erudite, and full of irresistible anecdote: the perfect companion for travelers, art lovers, and Francophiles — the magic of the Côte d’Azur from your armchair.

For more than a century, the French Riviera has been the playground — and the studio — of the world’s greatest artists and writers. In this vivid cultural history, John Baxter explores how the Côte d’Azur’s luminous light and easy glamour drew figures like Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall to its shores, and inspired writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway to set their most famous scenes there.

Baxter, a longtime observer of French life, traces the Riviera’s transformation from a quiet stretch of Mediterranean coast into a legend of art, literature, love, and reinvention. He captures the wild parties and passionate affairs, the studios and villas where modern art was born, and the expatriate dream that the region came to embody.

Lively, erudite, and full of irresistible anecdote, French Riviera and Its Artists is the perfect companion for travelers, art lovers, and Francophiles — a book that lets you experience the magic of the Côte d’Azur from your armchair.