The Matisse Museum ( Musée Départemental Henri Matisse ) is a museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis , France that primarily displays paintings by Henri Matisse . The museum was established by Matisse himself on 8 November 1952; he also defined the way his works should be arranged. At that time the museum was located in the wedding room of the Le Cateau City Hall.
6-473: Matisse Museum may refer to the following museums in France: Matisse Museum (Le Cateau) Musée Matisse (Nice) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Matisse Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
12-546: A cotton mill. After that, from 1878, it was bought by the city and used as a school for the children of Le Cateau and later converted to museum in 1982. In 2013, Carrie Pilto was appointed the director of the Matisse Museum. Pilto was previously a project assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 2007 until 2011, where she worked on "The Steins Collect," a travelling exhibition of
18-642: A surface of about 4,600 square metres (50,000 sq ft), the Museum displays more than 170 Matisse works, as well as 65 paintings by Auguste Herbin , given by the artist, paintings by Geneviève Claisse , relative and student of Herbin, elements of the Tériade collection of artists' books and 30 photographs from the Henri Cartier-Bresson collection. The Museum also regularly hosts temporary exhibits. The Fénelon Palace which houses most of
24-407: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matisse_Museum&oldid=1096949091 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Matisse Museum (Le Cateau) In 1956, after the death of Matisse, the collection of
30-626: The museum was enlarged by the gift of 65 paintings by Auguste Herbin . The Museum was moved to the « Fénelon Palace » ( Palais Fénelon ), also in Le Cateau, in 1982, and its ownership was transferred by the city to the Nord department in 1992; after three years of construction and refurbishment, it reopened on 8 November 2002. The Museum now has the third largest collection of Matisse works in France. With seventeen exhibition rooms, and over
36-463: The museum was used as a refuge by the bishops of Cambrai . It was rebuilt during the 18th century by Théodore Brongniart who also created a monumental porch of neoclassic style. The Catesians have given it this name due to François Fénelon , who was Archbishop of Cambrai. The classical French garden of the Palace was designed by Le Nôtre . During the 19th century, the building was transformed into
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