Famed art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo dies at 87

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The Times’ Christopher Knight reports that Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, collector of contemporary American painting and sculpture whose holdings formed the astonishing core of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s permanent collection when it was acquired by the young museum in 1984, died Friday night in Milan. He was 87.

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-- Keith Thursby