«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has just enriched its permanent collection with 195 promised gifts of works by some of the biggest names in art in the last half century. They include Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter.The museum will not put a dollar value on the cache pledged by various benefactors, who include present and former board members, but today's resurgent auction market might reckon its total value in nine figures.This acquisition comes less than a year after SFMOMA got a tremendous boost with its long-term agreement to steward the collection of Doris and Donald Fisher, (The GAP stores) some 1,100 works, most of them by defining creative figures of the mid to late 20th century such as Alexander Calder, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Andy Warhol, Richard Serra and Chuck Close.This latest spate of art kicks the museum's already high national and international standing up another notch, locking it in among the top five American institutions collecting in the same areas.

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