Palm Beach Society: Norton Museum looks south of the border for annual dinner dance
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera were at the Norton Museum of Art's annual gala.
OK, not themselves, actually — seeing as both have other long-term commitments — but their work, along with other works of Mexican Modernism.
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The annual gala took place April 7 at the museum and celebrated the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, the largest grouping of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera works ever to be on view at the Norton.
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Lori Gendelman, Lorna James and Anne Reyes served as chairwomen of the sold-out evening, which also honored Howard and Judie Ganek, whose transformative gift of contemporary art was featured in a special exhibition "The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection."
The evening began in the garden with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, and continued indoors with dinner, a live auction by Sotheby's Christy Coombs of a work by contemporary American painter Will Cotton, which fetched $140,000, and late-night dancing to music by The Millennials.
More than 500 people attended, including the Ganeks, Bruce Gendelman, Ronnie Heyman, Jane Holzer, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jeff and Nicola Marcus, Audrey and Martin Gruss, Amy and John Phelan, Hilary and Wilbur Ross, Sue and Beau Wrigley, Simone and Kerry Vickar, West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James, Nicki Harris, artists Jose Alvarez and Marc Dennis, Norton executive director Ghislain G'humieres and Congresswoman Lois Frankel.
Proceeds from the night — more than $2 million — help fund the museum's education programs and exhibitions.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach Society: Howard and Judie Ganek honored for art donation
