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14 February 1923Gregorian
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31 May 2005
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Among the stellar works he acquired, mostly as gifts, was a trove of 81 School of Paris masterpieces, including works by Picasso, Braque, Bonnard, Miró and Matisse, owned by Mr. Lieberman's friends, Jacques Gelman, a film producer, and his wife, Natasha. The collection was bequeathed to the Met in 1998. In 2003, the Met received 100 works from the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana collection, assembled by the art dealer Pierre Matisse, a son of the artist, and his wife. Mr. Lieberman was a close friend of Mr. Matisse. (English)
1979
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Since joining The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979 after a long and distinguished career at the Museum of Modern Art that began in 1943, William S. Lieberman has organized many major exhibitions, enlarged and enhanced the modern-art collection through extensive gifts, bequests, and purchases, and overseen many gallery installations both before the opening of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing for modern art in 1987, and over the years since. (English)
A power in the art world for more than 50 years, Mr. Lieberman was at his death the Jacques and Natasha Gelman special consultant for modern art at the Metropolitan. He mounted more than 35 shows there. (English)
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