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Palevsky, Max print view role Collector dates 1924-2010 city Beverly Hills state CA other cities Chicago, IL; New Guinea; Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Palm Springs, CA; Malibu, CA; sex M historical notes Born in Chicago, Max Palevsky was an innovator and forerunner in computers and systems technology. In the early 1960s he was a proponent of small and medium-size business computers and co-founded Scientific Data Systems, which he eventually sold to Xerox in 1969 for close to $1 billion. He helped found Intel Corp. and then exited the corporate world for other endeavors such as film production, then politics supporting Democrats Robert F. Kennedy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Gray Davis. He also invested in a passion of his, Rolling Stone. Palevsky began collecting art later in life. His collection featured works ranging from antiquities and Japanese woodcuts to those by the most significant artists from the Impressionist and modern and postwar and contemporary periods, including Fernand Léger, Auguste Rodin, Richard Lindner, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, and Frank Stella. He established the Palevsky Design Pavilion at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He also built an Arts & Crafts collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and donated $1 million to help establish the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2001, he promised his art holdings to LACMA, but his collection of 250 works was scheduled to be sold by Christie's in the Fall of 2010. decades of activity 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:31 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details «  back