''Still Life with Geraniums'' is a 1910 oil on canvas painting by

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

. The oil painting is in the collection of

Pinakothek der Moderne The Pinakothek der Moderne (, '' Pinakothek of the Modern'') is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's '' Kunstareal''. The building Designed by German architect Stephan Braunfels, the Pinakothek der Moderne was inaugurated in Se ...

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, to whom it was given in 1912, thus becoming, according to the museum, the first Matisse to enter a public collection.Butler, Desmond
"Art/Architecture; A Home for the Modern In a Time-Bound City"
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'', 10 November 2002. Retrieved 25 December 2007. ''Still Life with Geraniums'' was one of six paintings in the museum's collection to survive

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. This particular painting should not be confused with Matisse's earlier 1906 painting ''Still Life with a Geranium'', which is held by the

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, or his 1912 painting ''Pot of Geraniums'' in the

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. (

Juan Gris José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic g ...

also painted ''Pot of Geraniums'' in 1915, sold at auction in 2007.)"Giacometti, Juan Gris records fall at New York art sales"
AFP, May 2007. Retrieved from findarticles.com, 26 December 2007.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Still Life with Geraniums 1910 paintings Paintings by Henri Matisse Still life paintings Paintings in the Pinakothek der Moderne

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