MoMA Scores A ‘Lost’ Matisse

New York’s Museum of Modern Art has a new Matisse in its collection. The Plum Blossoms, from the artist’s last series of paintings, was purchased for MoMA by its new president and her husband for an amount estimated to be $25 million. The painting’s whereabouts had been unknown for more than 30 years until a Manhattan dealer approached MoMA on behalf of the anonymous collector who owned it. It was last put on public display in 1970, and because it has always been in private collections, it is reportedly in extraordinary condition. MoMA hopes to have the painting on its walls within a week.