28 April – 30 June 2020
Before the railways, the Cote d’Azur was just a strip, 125 miles long, of impoverished Mediterranean villages. But it soon became legendary for its scintillating beauty and for the artworks it inspired. Journey along the coast from St. Tropez to Monte Carlo, meet the artists, architects, writers, and characters that inhabited what Somerset Maugham immortalised as ‘a sunny place for shady people’.