Establishment labeled quality tourism, the Fernand Léger National Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to Fernand Léger, a major artist of the 20th century, who lived and worked in Biot.
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A few months before his death, in 1955, Fernand Léger bought a villa, the Mas Saint André, located at the foot of the village of Biot on a horticultural ground. The painter settled at the time on the French Riviera to follow the manufacture of his ceramics.
It is on this ground that Nadia Léger, his widow, and Georges Bauquier, his close collaborator, decide to create a museum to pay homage to him and to promote the knowledge of his work. The founders join forces to finance and coordinate...