FRENCH RIVIERA: LIVING WELL WAS THE BEST REVENGE
AUTHOR: XAVIER GIRARD
PUBLICATION DATE: NOVEMBER/ DECEMBER 2002
U.S. LIST PRICE: $34.95
HARDCOVER
73/4 x 11
196 PAGES
The French Riviera was the place to be during the twenties and early thirties. In Xavier Girard’s upcoming release French Riviera; Living Well Was the Best Revenge, artists and writers from all over the world came to "invent" a new way of life. Among them were Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Picasso, Man Ray, Picabia, Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Cocteau, Edith Wharton, Diaghilev, Eileen Gray, Anna de Noailles, and Hemingway, to name a few. French Riviera is a photo-biography of this happy time. It revives the now legendary story of these mythic personalities living in a world divided between a thirst for creation, the hunt for happiness, and the ominously approaching violence of World War II. Thanks to extraordinary personal archives that are revealed in these pages for the first time, you will witness firsthand the lifestyles and the omnipresent artwork of some of the most important artists of the 20th century. .

Xavier Girard, an art critic and historian specializing in modern art, has published numerous monographs, including Matisse: The Wonder of Color, Mediterranean: From Homer to Picasso and Symbols of Morocco (Assouline).