Loeb, Frances Lehman, 1906-1996

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role

Collector

dates

1906-1996

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Poughkeepsie, NY; Purchase, NY; Nassau, Bahamas;

sex

F

historical notes

Frances “Peter” Lehman Loeb was an art collector, philanthropist, trustee of Vassar and Cornell University and an overseer of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

Loeb came from a family of collectors and inherited French Impressionist work from her Mother, Adele Lewisohn Lehman (1882-1965). She and her husband, John Laneloth Loeb (1902-1996, m. 1926), built on these gifts and were known for their collection of French Impressionist's.
The Loeb collection included work by, among others, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Picasso, and Renoir.

Despite Loeb’s museums donations, including a van Gogh and two Picassos to the Metropolitan Museum, much of the collection was sold via Christie’s New York auction house in 1997.
The sale totaled $92.7 million with Toulouse-Lautrec's ''Seated Dancer in Pink Stockings'' (1890), selling for $14.5 million; Cezanne’s ''Madame Cezanne Seated in a Yellow Chair'' (1888-1890), selling for $23.1 million; Monet's ''Mauve Iris'' (1914-1917), selling for $3.8 million; Manet’s ''Manet With His Palette'' (1878), selling for $18.7 million; Cezanne’s ''View From L'Estaque,'' (1883-85), selling for $12.6 million; Cezanne’s ''Uncle Dominique,'' (circa 1866), selling for $2.9 million; a Gauguin ''Still Life With Decorative Pumpkins'' (1889), selling for $3.4 million; and Renoir's ''Standing Bather,'' selling for $4.2 million.

The Loebs had five children: Judith L. Chiara of Manhattan and Purchase, John L. Loeb Jr. of Manhattan and Purchase, Ann Loeb Bronfman of Washington, Arthur Lehman Loeb of Manhattan and Deborah Loeb Brice of London.

decades
of activity

1920-1930
1930-1940
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000

website

http://fllac.vassar.edu/

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10/31/2024 13:33:19

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
American Jewish Historical Society Archives New York	John Langeloth Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Family Papers	see details...