"A pitstop for those who love viewing art and want to holiday while they’re at it."
BY STEPHANIE VOZZA
The best place to see a great work of art might not be a museum. Crowded with tourists and the flat clack of iPhone photos being taken, over the last century, many a Picasso painting viewing has been ruined by the presence of other people.
The best place to see a great work of art might not be a museum. Crowded with tourists and the flat clack of iPhone photos being taken, over the last century, many a Picasso painting viewing has been ruined by the presence of other people.
But in two villas in Provence, France, viewing a modern art masterpiece privately is a possibility. At glamourous locations such as La Maison d’Ulysse and Colombe D’Or, you can experience key pieces of 20th Century Art by the pool. At Colombe D’Or, there’s a pendulous Calder mobile hanging over the poolside and Matisse and Fernand Leger in the house. At La Maison d’Ulysse, a wealth of Van Gogh work is less than an hours drive away in a small collection.
Colombe D’Or was founded in 1920 and soon attracted a louche art crowd including Henri Matisse and Alex Calder, when artists moved to the Cote D'Azur for the slightly easier life, regularly giving the owners paintings in return for room and board for the night. For a while, this made the outskirts of the always popular Provence area into more of a draw than famously glamourous locations such as San Tropez.
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