Editing Henri Matisse (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Tombe Henri Matisse Nice.jpg|thumb|left|Tombstone of Henri Matisse and his wife Amélie Noellie, cemetery of the Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez]]
The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was ''[[Still Life with Geraniums]]'' (1910), acquired in 1912 by the [[Pinakothek der Moderne]].<ref name="nyt-pin">Butler, Desmond. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D8133EF933A25752C1A9649C8B63 "Art/Architecture; A Home for the Modern In a Time-Bound City"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 10 November 2002. Retrieved 25 December 2007.</ref>

Matisse's son [[Pierre Matisse]] (1900–1989) opened a modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery, which was active from 1931 until 1989, represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited [[Joan Miró]], [[Marc Chagall]], [[Alberto Giacometti]], [[Jean Dubuffet]], [[André Derain]], [[Yves Tanguy]], [[Le Corbusier]], [[Paul Delvaux]], [[Wifredo Lam]], [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], [[Balthus]], [[Leonora Carrington]], [[Zao Wou Ki]], [[Sam Francis]], and [[Simon Hantaï]], sculptors [[Theodore Roszak (artist)|Theodore Roszak]], [[Raymond Mason (sculptor)|Raymond Mason]], and [[Reg Butler]], and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.<ref>[[John Russell (art critic)|Russell, John]] (1999). ''Matisse, Father & Son''. New York: Harry N. Abrams. pp.387–389 {{ISBN|0-8109-4378-6}}</ref><ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Matisse/collection_more.htm Metropolitan Museum exhibition of works from the Pierre Matisse Gallery, accessed online 20 June 2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219222811/http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Matisse/collection_more.htm |date=19 February 2009 }}</ref>

The [[Musée Matisse (Nice)|Musée Matisse]] in Nice, a municipal museum, has one of the world's largest collections of Matisse's works, tracing his artistic beginnings and his evolution through to his last works. The museum, which opened in 1963, is located in the Villa des Arènes, a seventeenth-century [[villa]] in the neighbourhood of Cimiez.<ref>{{cite web|title=Musée Matisse de Nice Cimiez|url=http://www.nicetrotter.fr/art-musee-matisse-de-nice-cimiez-125.html|access-date=21 June 2011|publisher=Nice Trotter|language=French|archive-date=13 February 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213131836/http://www.nicetrotter.fr/art-musee-matisse-de-nice-cimiez-125.html}} on 22 March 2021</ref>

His ''[[The Plum Blossoms]]'' (1948) was purchased on 8 September 2005 for the [[Museum of Modern Art]] by [[Henry Kravis]] and the new president of the museum, [[Marie-Josée Drouin]]. Its estimated price was $25 million. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/arts/design/08muse.html The Modern Acquires a 'Lost' Matisse], ''The New York Times'', 8 September 2005</ref>

A [[Matisse (crater)|crater]] on the planet Mercury was named Matisse in his honor in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |title=Matisse |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3750 |access-date=22 August 2023 |work=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |publisher=[[IAU]]/[[NASA]]/[[USGS]]}}</ref>

In film, Matisse was portrayed by [[Joss Ackland]] in ''[[Surviving Picasso]]'' (1996), as well as by Yves-Antoine Spoto in ''[[Midnight in Paris]]'' (2011).

The [[Ray Bradbury]] short story "[[The Vintage Bradbury|The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse]]" contains an allusion to the artist painting an eye on a poker chip for an American man to use as a monocle.