Mehr als 60 Kunstwerke von Henri Matisse als Schenkung an das Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris

A truly generous gift to make Matisse’s works accessible to museum goers instead of selling the collection off for private profit.

> The Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris has received an “extraordinarily generous” donation of 61 works by Henri Matisse that have been kept in the artist’s family.

> Most of the donated art – which includes paintings, drawings, etchings, lithographs and a sculpture – features the painter’s daughter Marguerite.

> The donation, described by the museum as exceptional and historic, was made by Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Matisse’s grandson Claude, who died in 2011 in New York.