What a Collector Leaves Behind

NEW YORK—Thanks to the low-profile Manhattan private investor and art collector Richard S. Zeisler, who died in March, 16 art institutions are welcoming important 20th-century works into their collections, reports the New York Times. Zeisler, who had no immediate family, divided his collection of some 110 works, valued at around $100 million, among institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art. The Met received important works by Bacon and Miro, while MoMA, where Zeisler was a board member from 1979 until his death, got more than 30 works by artists including Magritte, Kandinsky, Picasso, Miro, and Beuys. His gifts to the Guggenheim were carefully tailored to complement its holdings, and include works by Beckman, Tanguy, Miro, and the British artist Bridget Riley.