Matisse Museum and Chagall Museum… Nice day 3

Last day on Cote D’Azur was reserved for the arts… I am really glad my friend had two wonderful recommendations, and namely – Matisse Museum and Chagall Museum.

…then one evening, while checking where are these two museum located, my friend spotted Palais Lascaris in the old town of Nice. And I usually look for the Contemporary Art Museum when I visit a new city…and there is a pretty cool one in Nice - Museum of modern and contemporary Art.

First thing – I really appreciate that museums usually work on Sundays. Second – these museums are free entrance, except the Chagall one.

We started our mid January Sunday with a French breakfast in a cute cafe on the main street in Nice (in fact, not that many were open at around 9 am on a Sunday)… delicious croissants. (omg, I didn’t take any photo of the breakfast :)) )

Matisse Museum and Chagall Museum are situated in a residential area – a hill called Cimiez.
While going up the hill, by bus, we understood that it is a rich people’s hill… :) Matisse museum is kind of part of a more touristic complex (with a nice park where many people were walking with their dogs, jogging, having a warm drink on a small terrace - we did too :) )…

This is the building of the museums


You are not allowed to take pictures inside the museum, but their collection is mostly Matisse’s drawings (and it is so weird that I googled “Matisse drawings” and haven’t found anything from what I (remember seeing) saw there)… info from the website “The museum’s collection now has 68 paintings and cut-outs, 236 drawings, 218 engravings, 57 sculptures, 14 illustrated books and also 95 photographs, 187 objects that belonged to the painter that complement prints, tapestries, ceramics, stained glass and various documents.”

There is this pretty huge lovely thing (source of the picture: www.wanderingcarol.com)

(Fleurs et fruits, 1952/1953, Gouache decoupee 410 x 870 cm)

Generally, i love cut-outs… bought 2 postcards with these ones (source in the image info)

(my first thought was – it would be amazing to have a carpet with this print… in my future house :)) )

and here is a brochure in English – On the French Riviera – retracing Matisse’s footsteps - interesting and useful info inside.

Around the museum there are some Gallo-Roman ruins

The Franciscan monastery with its Italianate gardens

The view from the gardens…

And with some zoom in – the sea!

There were many cars parked just in front of the monastery… and I was – this is bad style, to have a parking in front of a monastery…
but then we got inside and saw that it was full of people. Duuuh, Sunday…

thus monasteries/churches also have to have an infrastructure, to be visitor(or how is one that attends the church called?)-friendly.

the Hotel Regina where Matisse used to reside is just outside the park

then we went down the hill by foot, looking at the nice house, having the sun shining on us…

again colorful elements on the houses, that i love

got to the Chagall Museum. Entrance – 8,5 euros, it’s a bit cheaper for under 26. Pictures were allowed.

The collections is composed basically from 3 series –

38 gouaches, Sans Titre, pour Cirque

Just beautiful and psychedelic

Fot more pictures – on PICASA

And the stained glass

And the painted piano <3

Another series is – The Biblical Message

love this element

Again, more photos in this ALBUM

And the Cantique des Cantiques series

all Marvelous!

Oh, and this outdoor wall

I am very happy we visited these two museums and been to that region…

and a house outside the museum, just by the bust stop

the other museums in a different post :)