Musée des Beaux-Arts de Menton

View from the garden to the museum in the palace

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Menton is a French art museum housed in the Palais Carnolès in Menton , the former summer residence of the Princes of Monaco .

history

The English art collector and curator of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Monaco, Charles Wakefield-Mori , expanded the museum when he decided in 1959 to donate his collection of modernist artists to the city of Menton. In 1961 the palace was bought by the city of Menton and has been used as a museum building since 1977.

collection

The Menton Museum houses a rich collection of paintings and sculptures from various eras and styles, ranging from the 12th to the 20th century. Starting with Italian artists of primitivism , to Greek icons and Flemish masters, the collection ends with works of classical modernism : including artists from the École de Paris z. B. Suzanne Valadon , Max Jacob , Raoul Dufy or Maurice Hensel and other modernists such as Pablo Picasso , Marc Chagall , Francis Picabia , Albert Gleizes , Paul Delvaux and Salvador Dalí .

The sculpture park

The sculpture park was established in 1994 and is presented in the Amgrumengarten of the palace amid 137 different species of citrus-bearing trees. P, 202.207.

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literature

• Susanne Böttcher: Michelin - The green travel guide: Côte d'Azur , p. 203, Verlag Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2007, ISBN 3-8342-8984-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marie-christine Abalain: Menton Patrimoine: les bienfaiteurs sont parmi nous. In: nicematin.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chemin de Menton Le Palais Carnolès, musée des Beaux-Arts ( Memento of September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: riviera-francaise.fr
3. ^ Musée des Beaux-Arts du Palais Carnolès. (No longer available online.) In: Reisen.viamichelin.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 6, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Barbara F. Freed, Alan Halpern: Artists and Their Museums On the Riviera . Harry N. Abrams, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8109-2761-2 , limited preview in Google Book Search

Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 17 ″  E