John Berggruen Gallery is a nationally renowned gallery specializing in American and European paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. John Berggruen, the gallery's namesake, is widely viewed as the Bay Area's most prominent dealer of modern art. Together with his wife, Gretchen, the couple chose First Republic because of its knowledge of and reputation in the art world and its understanding of the industry's cash and capital needs. The accessibility of their banker and the Bank's clear and open lines of communication have helped make banking and financial management easier for the Berggruens and their gallery.