Day 20 - No Renoir, Just Picasso

Today we got up for a relaxed breakfast out on the terrace overlooking some of Nice. Afterwrds Rob had to do a little work for some presentations next week. So Averil and I headed out to the Renoir museum in Cagnes sur mer. One thing about the French, never look for street names, hard to find. Just look for the places that you actually want to go.

So we rocked up to the Renoir museum and it was closed ... until May 2005 - renovations. There was a Picasso museum the next town over (Antibes) so that was the new plan. We get to Antibes and it is a walled city, basically old fortifications. Shown below is an entry point which houses the old city with winding streets and plenty of character:



We yonder in, find the Picasso museum and have a look around. Basically Picasso was in the building for about 6 months in 1946-7 producing work. It is always interesting to have a look at his art to get a feel for what he was driving after (I think he created some 14,000 drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics etc. in his life time).

Below is the Grimaldi Castle within which this Picasso museum was housed in. Always amazed at the wonderful array of buildings that end up being museums - at a minimum is preserves the building and keeps it functional but seeing the artworks in the original building in which it was produced, just something cool about it.