On a recent trip to Nice, France I visited Les Musee des Beaux Arts a museum established in 1928 in a beautiful house orginally built for a Ukrainian Princess. The collections of the museum are extremely varied and included the work of Jules Cheret, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Rodin and Gustav-Adolf Mossa. I love French museums because I feel they do more to incorporate art outside the museum building as well as in. Whilst sat in the wonderful gardens facing an amazing fountain/sculpture which frames the palm trees and foliage of the brilliant South of France, I contemplate the grandeur of the building, the sweeping staircase designed to accommodate a small orchestra, the large vaulted ceilings and marbled flooring seem almost more impressive than some of the artwork that adorn their walls. But this may be due to the fact that this grand home was designed to hold such things. I cant help but feel that this sculpture nestled within the foliage seems more at home than the other works of art within that indifferent, perfect building.
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