Collection Séverin Wunderman

The colorful Riviera town of Menton, one of Cocteau’s favorite places, already has a small museum devoted to the artist in a 17th-century stone bastion on the port. This second, much larger museum facing the seafront, opening November 6, was designed by French architect Rudy Ricciotti to house the exceptional collection donated by the watchmaker Séverin Wunderman—some 990 works by Cocteau along with 450 by his contemporaries including Picasso, Modigliani, De Chirico and Miró, and another 360 linked to Sarah Bernhardt.