exhibition
The Kronberger Donation
"An invention of the Azure an economy
19th century"

June 28 - November 3, 2019

Visual legend: Emile-Sylvain Chamard-Boix (attributed to)
Port of Nice and Bay of Angels from Mount Boron, 1933
Oil on canvas; 37 x 54 cm
Karlheinz Kronberger Donation
©Luc Josia-Albertini - City of Nice

"An invention of the Azure landscape in the 19th century" at the Jules Chéret Museum of Fine Arts.

The opening will take place this Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 7 p.m. in the presence of Karlheinz Kronberger. Focusing on the donation made by Mr Karlheinz Kronberger of a set of 169 works from the 19th and 20th centuries representing Nice and the Côte d'Azur, this exhibition aims to highlight the construction of the latter as a territory subject to artistic as well as tourism. The collector's choices, mainly those of small masters, local and national, allow to highlight the primary role of these in this construction process, their contribution in the invention of the landscape, the selection of points of view, the light to color. The exhibition will be an opportunity to recall the links of sociability between winterers, good Nice society and artists by which the identity of the territory and its most prominent markers are built. It will thus allow to identify the constants of these visual markers of the territory and their remarkable durability to the present day, drawing the décor of the ever-renewed desire that arouses the Côte d'Azur, from pictorial works to Instagram, passing by advertising posters and cinema.

Curator: Michèle Perez, Collections Officer of the International Museum of Naïf Art Anatole Jakovsky