São Schlumberger

Maria "São" Schlumberger (; 15 October 192915 August 2007), was a Portuguese-born American fashion and art patron and collector, and the second wife of Pierre Schlumberger.

Biography She was born Maria da Conceição Schroeder Diniz on 15 October 1929 in Porto, Portugal. His first wife, Claire Schwob d'Héricourt, with whom he had five children, died from a stroke in 1959. She regularly organised parties, ranging from formal black-tie balls to a "hot-pants party". She offered to support Banier financially so he could focus on writing, but he declined.

Schlumberger particularly liked the work of Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. Her portrait was painted by Salvador Dalí, but in 1987, she said, "I don't really like it. I was expecting a fantasy... but he did a classic". Andy Warhol also painted her portrait.

She was a patron to the fashion designer John Galliano, and lent him her empty 17th-century Paris hotel particulier (which she had left for a new Right Bank apartment), for his autumn 1994 show, designed with the help of André Leon Talley, Amanda Harlech, and Steven Robinson.