Agnes Gund is one of America’s greatest and most influential art customers who died at the age of 87. New York Times She died Friday, but did not state the reason.
Gund’s collection and philanthropy changed the art world in the United States, prompting many others to start buying art seriously. Since joining the International Commission in 1967, she has been feeling her influence most deeply at the Museum of Modern Art (New York Institution).
Over the past 40 years since, Gund has helped fund many efforts to help push MOMA into the future, especially the museum’s expansion in 2004. The plan involves the creation of a brand new building, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, cost $858 million and trapping Moma Spun Moma into its behemoth today.
She is also crucial to restarting the institution, now known as MOMA PS1, a conceited Queens Center for Modern Art, who helped bring Moma’s Aegis to Moma’s Aegis in 1999. As of Friday, Gund was still listed as a member of the board of directors of Moma PS1, a director position currently held by Connie Butler, currently owned by Gund Alter Gund.
At the time of her death, Gund was also the president of MOMA and a lifelong trustee, serving as president since 1991 and 2002.
She is also listed as a frequent visitor to the Cleveland Museum of Art, a trustee of the Morgan Library and Museum of Life, and honorary director of the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art. In every way, she patronized all of these institutions.
Gund appears in the year Artnews The Top 200 Collector List is often ranked between 1990 (the year it was first created) and each version in 2018.
Although Gund has always been a key figure in the art world, she gained wide public recognition in 2017 when she sold a precious Roy Lichtenstein painting, masterpiece (1962), plans to use recovered funds to start the art of justice funds, an initiative focused on remediating the negative effects of mass incarceration in the United States. The work was eventually acquired by collector Steve Cohen for $165 million, and Gund put about $100 million into the newly created fund.
There will be a complete announcement.
