Most artists have a peaceful studio ahead of them and a lifetime of work behind them when they reach 60. French painter and ceramicist Robert Tatin decided to start the largest undertaking of his life at that very moment. He moved to La Frénouse, a small hamlet in the Mayenne area of western France, close to the town of Cossé-le-Vivien in 1962. Over the course of the following 21 years, he covered the grounds surrounding his home with imposing painted cement figures, gates, and gardens. The outcome is what tourists today refer to as the Musée Robert Tatin, one of France's most peculiar art places.
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