Unknown Art from Eastern Bloc Countries

Just a quick note today...
A gentleman just came and spent about twenty minutes talking to me and my co-worker about the kind of art he would like to see in the museum.  Seattle pales in comparison to many other museums, especially next to The Metropolitan Museum in New York.  He said that he is very good friends with a curator in Europe, and they want to do a kind of "trade" relationship.  Basically the period is twentieth century, but the work was done by artists who were hidden behind the Iron Curtain, so they are virtually unkown, even though they did pieces much like, say, Picasso.  I am totally and completely fascinated.  He said that bringing that stuff over here would be amazing, but equally awesome would be the opportunity to bring our Native-American and African art over there.  I don't know...I was pretty impressed...