On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its Matisse Museum, the City of Nice is offering, for the first time, 8 simultaneous exhibitions in homage to the figure and work of Henri Matisse. The general curatorship of this cultural event, entitled Nice 2013 A Summer for Matisse, has been entrusted to Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former Minister of Culture.
From the heights of Cimiez to the Promenade des Anglais, passing through Old Nice, 8 exhibitions, presented simultaneously in 8 municipal museums, will invite visitors on a unique journey that will lead them from the Matisse Museum to the Archaeological Museum, to the Theater of Photography and Image, to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, to the Palais Lascaris, to the Ponchettes Gallery, to the Villa Masséna, and to the Museum of Fine Arts.
The second city in France, after Paris, in terms of the attendance of its municipal museums, with nearly 700,000 visitors in 2012, the City of Nice wished to pay homage, fittingly, to the figure, work, and legacy of the painter who loved the Azurean capital, while highlighting the diversity of its museums.
A major cultural event: The exhibitions of Nice 2013.
A Summer for Matisse has benefited from loans from some of the most prestigious French and foreign museums: Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Mobilier national, Château de Versailles, Musée d’Orsay, Musée national Gustave Moreau, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum…
In addition, numerous loans have come from Museums of France, especially those located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region, as well as from private collections. In total, more than 700 works will be presented to the public.
