Musée d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky

This guide to the Musee d'Art Naif Anatole Jakovsky in Nice starts in 1929 with a bitter divorce: the perfumer Francois Coty lost this pink château above the port to his wife Yvonne, along with several million francs and two newspapers. It follows the house through a 1930 rebuild by the architect Malgaud and a 1973 gift from Coty's daughter to the city, before a very different fortune arrived five years later. The critic Anatole Jakovsky discovered naive art through Henri Rousseau's canvases in 1942 and spent the rest of his life defending painters who never trained in an academy.