Gallery Gets Matisse Work Last Shown in ’30

A painting by Henri Matisse that had not been seen publicly since it was exhibited in Berlin in 1930 has turned up in an art gallery after spending 38 years in the home of a Palm Beach couple.

The painting, “Marguerite, la Toque de Velours Bleu,” or “Marguerite in the Blue Velvet Hat,” is a portrait of Matisse’s daughter that was painted in 1915 or 1916.

It was put on display last week at the Norton Gallery of Art after being donated by Martin and Jean Goodman, who had kept the painting after buying it from a dealer in Paris, gallery officials said.