Museum of Contemporary Art which includes three schools of painting (Toulon, Bourges and Paris) with more than 280 paintings including 58 of the painter Simon Ségal
These paintings bring together 3 major currents of contemporary painting:
- the school of Toulon with Mange, Tamari, Latapie, Verdilhan, Eisenschitz, ...
- the school of Paris with Segal, Blond, Mintchine, Dobrinsky, Marchand, Van Dogen, Dufy, Moualla, ...
- the school of Bourges with Thibaudet, Brigand, Gueldry,
All the paintings come from the private collection of Mr Bassano, a remarkable patron of the arts who, banned under the Mussolini regime and exiled in France, donated them to the village of Aups, in gratitude for the welcome he received.