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Saint Tropez - Culture |
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It’s a nice harbour on the
Riviera recognizable by its emblematic church tower. It is the union
between authenticity by its site and appearance by people going there.
If you come to Saint-Tropez especially for the place, there are two
interesting museums in the town. The museum of the Annonciade reminds
that Saint-Tropez was a centre of advanced painting at the beginning of
the XXth century. Its collections go from 1890 to 1950 and show
paintings of pointillist, fauvist and nabis movements. The other museum
is devoted to Saint-Tropez’s history. A XVIth century citadel
dominates the town: it was the most important defence element between
Antibes and Toulon. Beyond its fame, Saint-Tropez is worth seeing.
The collections displayed, which
were introduced between 1890 and 1950, are surprising, as much by their
quality These works are made up of
first-class paintings, belonging essentially to the pointillist, fauvist
and nabis periods The
Chapel of Notre-Dame de l'Annonciade was built around 1568. Disaffected
during the Revolution, the upper part was fitted out in 1937 in order to
contain the collections of the Museon Tropelen.
In 1950, the whole building was put at the disposal of Georges
Grammont who had it converted by Louis Sue for its new museological
function. He endowed the new Museum, which was inaugurated on the 7th of
August 1955, with fifty-six items of his renowned collection.
A witness to the historical role played by Saint-Tropez in the
Art of the XXth Century and the result of one man's passion, the Museum
of the Annonciade has chosen to remain a living museum by offering a
prestigious exhibition to its visitors, each summer, accompanied by
other events at Christmas or at Easter. In the heart of a small lane,
typically tropezian made, a door let the public enter and see a fabulous
collection of butterflies... Scientific, when the butterflies
are presented in the classical order, this collection is also aesthetic.
On natural scenery or herbarium, the artist tries a new approach to the mimetism and the camouflage, a description of the butterflies inside their environment. More than 4500 species are gathered, some have almost disappeared, protected today, very rare varieties, or also exceptional aberration.
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The
Annonciade Museum is an extremely brilliant reminder that the village of
Saint-Tropez was one of the most active centres of the pictorial
avant-garde of the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to Paul Signac
who, in 1892, discovered the little fishing port while sailing his yacht
Olympia. Charmed by the area, Signac bought a home there which became
his studio, La Hune and to which be invited many artists: Cross, Matisse,
Derain, Marquet. 
as by their homogeneity. All the artists exhibited based their work
around the notion of colour whilst remaining faithful to the art of
representation. 
