2013 Event A private collection of 1,500 works of art plundered by the Nazi's and discovered in a Munich apartment in 2012, has an estimated worth of $1 billion; lost works include paintings by Matisse, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall and Picasso 2013 Event Investigators on the case of the October 2012 Kunsthal gallery theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, discover paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son has been charged with the crime 1961 Event Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days 1961 Event NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd 1954 Death Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84 1954 Death Henri Matisse, French Artist 1913 Event New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to U.S. public 1901 Birthday George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese 1869 Birthday Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter, Odalisque
