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1939
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This exhibition consisted of forty-four paintings that were publicly on view for the first time ever. The collection of paintings were lent by the widowed Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, also known as Florene May Schoenborn. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx of Chicago, who started gathering the works in 1939, kept an eye out for refined work that truly captured the exalted magnificence of the various artists they collected from over the years. Among the collection, one could find outstanding workings by Bonnard, Braque, de Chirico, Dubuffet, Gris, Leger, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, and Rouault. (English)
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Florene May Schoenborn, a benefactor and life trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, to which she gave dozens of paintings collected over the years by her and her second husband, Samuel A. Marx, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan. She was 92. (English)
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[Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, by 1949–51; possibly purchased on July 12, 1949 from Henri Kaeser, Lausanne; sold on May 7, 1951, for $2,200 to Marx]; Samuel and Florene Marx, Chicago (1951–his d. 1964); Florene May Marx, later Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, New York (1964–d. 1995; on extended loan to MMA, from 1985; her bequest to MMA) (English)
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Florene E. Schoenborn (May) aka Straus, Marx (17 Feb 1903 - 25 Aug 1995)
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