To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the painter's tragic death in 1975, Jacques Cordier is exhibiting in the town that revealed the artist.

The first retrospective devoted to the painter in Saint-Tropez, it will be an opportunity to rediscover a talented, sincere yet forgotten artist.

A painter of international renown during his lifetime, Jacques Cordier's career was all too short, but he translated the fascination that Saint-Tropez and the Mediterranean held for him with delicacy, passion and depth. Trained as a draughtsman in Paris, Cordier's early works gave no hint of the colorist qualities he developed after his marriage to Simone Armando Barbier in 1966.