The Plum Blossoms

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The Plum Blossoms

Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1948
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	115.9 cm × 88.9 cm (45.6 in × 35 in)
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Plum Blossoms is a 1948 painting by Henri Matisse. On September 8, 2005, it was purchased for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970. This is an example of one of the final group of oil paintings in Matisse's career.

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NYTimes article on purchase

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Works (List)	Woman Reading (1894) · Le Mur Rose (Landscape, the Pink Wall) (1898) · Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon) (1902) · Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Luxury, Calm and Pleasure) (1904) · La Raie Verte (The Green Line) (1905) · The Open Window (1905) · Woman with a Hat (1905) · Les toits de Collioure (1905) · Landscape at Collioure (1905) · Le bonheur de vivre (1906) · The Young Sailor II (1906) · Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) · Madras Rouge (1907) · Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) · The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) · Game of Bowls (1908) · Bathers with a Turtle (1908) · Dance (1910) · Music (1910) · Still Life with Geraniums (1910) · L'Atelier Rouge (1911) · The Conversation (1908–1912) · Zorah on the Terrace (1912) · Window at Tangier (1912) · Le Rifain assis (1912) · View of Notre-Dame (1914) · Woman on a High Stool (1914) · Le rideau jaune (The Yellow Curtain) (1915) · The Window (1916) · The Painter and His Model (1917) · Interior A Nice (1920) · Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) · Yellow Odalisque (1926) · The Dance II (mural) (1932) · Robe violette et Anémones (1937) · Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) · La Blouse Roumaine (1940) · Le Lanceur De Couteaux (1943) · Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) · L'Asie (1946) · Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) · The Plum Blossoms (1948) · Beasts of the Sea (1950) · The Sorrows of the King (1952) · Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) · La Négresse (1952) · Blue Nude II (1952) · The Snail (1953) · Le Bateau (1953)

Other works	Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary) • Jazz (book)

Shows	Salon d'Automne

Movement	Fauvism

Teachers	William-Adolphe Bouguereau • Gustave Moreau • John Peter Russell

Collectors	Sergei Shchukin • Gertrude Stein • Leo Stein • Albert C. Barnes • Cone sisters

Family	Pierre Matisse • Paul Matisse

Wikimedia	Matisse at Wiktionary • Matisse at Wikibooks • Matisse at Wikiquote • Matisse at Wikisource • Matisse at Commons • Matisse at Wikinews