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03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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The Red Dot Auction
05/14/2011 - By Orange, California

What is the Red Dot Auction? We asked artists from around the world, both emerging and world-renowned, to contribute a work of art to our Spring Fundraiser.

One of the gallery's walls was hung with 45 works of art, all of which had begun with a blank 10" square canvas. The artists contributed watercolors, photographs, and mixed media as well as more traditional paint on canvas works. The one thing they all have in common though, is that they have signed their artwork on the reverse.

Why are the artists anonymous? We felt it added "spice" to the silent auction. Bidding began at $100.00 per work, and increased in $50.00 increments with each bid. The opportunity to own a work of art that may normally sell for thousands of dollars for far less was quite possible. Our patrons had to trust their hearts--not the artist's signature--to make that decision.

Why a red dot? Traditionally, when a work of art sells in a gallery, a red dot will be placed on the wall next to it. Our patrons received a $1000.00 red dot that could be used as a "Buy It Now" dot on any silent auction work of art, eliminating the fear that they might lose that work of art to another bidder. This silent auction was so successful that we've planned to do it again in 2012!

Photos: Stephen Russo


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