Antibes, located on the Mediterranean coast in southern France, is a famous resort town along with Nice, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, and Monte Carlo. The entrance to the old town is about 200 meters from Antibes Station, and if you walk about 1 km from there through the old town, you will find the Peynet Museum facing the square in front of the sea. The official name of the Peynet Museum is the Museum of Raymond Peynet and Humorous Artists. The Peynet Museum and the Picasso Museum, located about 100 meters away, are cultural tourism resources for the city of Antibes. I have been to Antibes several times and met the director of the Peynet Museum, Goujon, and Annie Peynet of Raymond Peynet. They are both very kind people. In the square facing the museum, a bronze statue of Peynet's lovers has been installed, and the kiosk (open-air music hall) that appears in Peynet's paintings has also been recently built.
In the museum, not only original prints, posters, and drawings, but also ceramics depicting Peynet's lovers and dolls designed by Peynet are on display. Peynet's ceramics are made by a German company and his dolls by a French company, and they apparently sold quite well. The museum would like to collect the entire series of Peynet dolls, but it seems that they are difficult to obtain at present. Princess Grace of the neighboring Principality of Monaco is a fan of Peynet and has collected all the Peynet dolls, so she has asked the museum to give them to her, but it seems that she has not received a positive response.
At the request of the Peynet Museum in Karuizawa, I met several times with Director Goujon of the Peynet Museum in Antibes and Annie Peynet, Raymond Peynet's daughter, to act as a bridge between the Karuizawa Peynet Museum and the Peynet Museum in Antibes, and found both of them to be very kind people.