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  1. Feb 2, 1992 · This exhibition pays tribute to Mr. Paley’s dedicated service to the Museum over a period of more than half a century. The Paley Collection, which includes paintings, sculpture, and drawings, ranges in date from the latter half of the nineteenth century through the early 1970s.

  2. Mar 7, 2014 · March 15 – July 7, 2014. The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism features selections from the extraordinary private collection of William S. Paley, the late founder and guiding spirit of CBS. The exhibition features more than 60 works of art, including paintings, drawings and sculpture, some of the most striking by French ...

  3. Dec 19, 2012 · William S. Paley, founder of CBS Inc., was an enthusiastic collector of modern art and an active supporter of the Museum throughout his life, serving as President, Chairman, and Chairman Emeritus.

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  5. At the time Paley began collecting, an appreciation for modern art was a relatively rare, radical and forward-thinking thing. In the 1930s, few collectors had the courage and vision to collect the canvases of artists such as Picasso, Renoir and Matisse.

  6. This volume presents his extraordinary personal collection of eighty-four paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings by some of the most important figures of modern art, including Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, bequeathed to the Museum in 1990.

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  7. Art Collection. Paley acquired an important art collection with around forty works, many of which are today in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Paley's collection included works by Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Derain, Bonnard, Gauguin, Rouault, and other modern masters. [17]

  8. Nov 4, 2022 · By Sotheby's | Nov 4, 2022. Few collectors matched the courage and vision of William S. Paley, who championed a wide range of artists from Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau to Kenneth Noland and Josef Albers. Expert Voices: Simon Shaw on Still Life Paintings of the William S. Paley Collection.