14 мая 2009 г.
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Lost Matisse masterpiece resurfaces after over 30 years

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A lost masterpiece by Henri Matisse is going on public display for the first time in three decades. The Plum Blossoms (1948), one of a series painted by Matisse in southern France, has evaded the gaze of curators and scholars since the 1970s. Now the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan has acquired the painting, one of the artist's last major works.

The purchase marks the end of a long search for the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. The Plum Blossoms was last exhibited in Paris, in 1970, but was then sold to a private collector by one of Matisse's children. After the sale it disappeared from public view for 35 years.

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to resurface - to appear again after not being seen for a period of time

public - available for people in general to use

to go / be / place / put on display - in a place that is able to be seen by many people

a decade - a period of ten years, especially one beginning with a year that ends in a 0, for example 1990 to 1999

a series [countable, usually singular] - a set of similar things that follow one after another

to evade - to avoid meeting someone

one's gaze - someone's way of looking at someone or something

the public gaze - attention from the public

to evade the gaze of sb

a scholar - someone who studies a particular subject and knows a lot about it, especially a subject that is not scientific

to acquire - to get something, for example by buying it or being given it

to mark - to show that something is happening

private - not connected with someone's work or their public position

to disappear - if someone or something disappears, they move somewhere where they can no longer be seen

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