articles/Grand Palais curtainraiser for Gap founders collection — theartnewspaper.com

Staying at home: Richard Serra’s works are too heavy for the floors of the Grand Palais in Paris One of the finest collections of 20th-century art in the US goes on show in Paris next month. Assembled by Gap founder Donald Fisher and his wife Doris, the rarely seen works were kept for years behind closed doors at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. The first—and probably only—international tour begins at the Grand Palais (8 April-22 June), and then travels to the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence (11 July-18 October). “American Icons: Masterworks from SFMoMA and the Fisher Collection” features 50 works by 14 artists, offering a glimpse of what is to come when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) takes control of the Fisher Collection next year and opens a $365m expansion designed to show it off.

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