Trends Reviews and Recaps

The executive director of the Barnes Foundation earlier this week revealed that several items from its collection and offices, including “a work by Henri Matisse” and a grand piano, were “missing.”

Today the Philadelphia Inquirer reports the instrument wasn’t really missing at all. (“Missing Piano Turns Up in Ardmore,” by Peter Dobrin.)

It turns out an Ardmore, Pa., couple purchased the piano from the Barnes Foundation seven years ago through a classified ad placed in the Main Line Times, and at a bargain price too.

So, which is worse? That the Barnes considered the piano to be “missing” or that the foundation didn’t know it had sold the instrument in the first place? Tough call.