The Cleveland Museum of Art announced on June 3 that it will co-present “Painting the French Riviera” with the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition will show at the Royal Academy from October 2, 2026, through January 31, 2027, before traveling to Cleveland, where it opens March 14, 2027, and runs through July 11.

The show assembles more than 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, posters, and other works spanning 90 years of modern art on the French Mediterranean coast, from the 1870s through the 1960s. Artists represented include Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Georges Braque, Paul Signac, and Yves Klein.

The exhibition is curated by Ann Dumas of the Royal Academy, Heather Lemonedes Brown (CMA’s Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos Jr. Curator of Modern European Art), and Colm Guo-Lin Peare, assistant curator at the Royal Academy. It traces how the Riviera’s light and landscapes drew successive generations of artists south from Paris and became a catalyst for movements from Neo-Impressionism to postwar abstraction.

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art