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Provence and Côte d'Azur : Top 10 Masterpieces of Provence

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1. Café du Soir

Vincent van Gogh painted more than 300 canvases in the town of Arles (see Roman Arles). Café du Soir (1888) is one of the best known.
2. La Joie de Vivre

This 1946 work is one of Picasso’s most important from his Antibes period.
3. La Partie de Campagne

Fernand Léger overlays bold colours on bold, comic-book outlines in this 1954 painting.
4. Nu Bleu IV

The 1952 work is among the best known of Matisse’s blue paper cut-outs series.
5. St-Tropez, la Place des Lices et le Café des Arts

Charles Camoin evokes the St-Tropez of 1925.
6. L’Orage

Pointillist Paul Signac’s 1895 work glowingly depicts St-Tropez harbour.
7. La Montagne SainteVictoire au Grand Pin

This 1887 painting is one of Cézanne’s most renowned images of the Provence mountain (see Mont Sainte-Victoire).
8. The Burning Bush

Nicolas Froment’s 1476 triptych in the Cathédrale de St-Saveur (see Cathédrale St-Sauveur) was commissioned by Provence’s last king, René.
9. Jetée Promenade à Nice

Portraying an evening stroll on the esplanade, the 1928 work is Dufy at his colourful best.
10. Venus Victrix

One of Renoir’s finest bronzes (1914) stands amid the olive groves at Les Collettes.