The evening raised over $1.1 million and closed out with a dinner in honor of artist Dana Schutz, held in the Sotheby’s newly revamped main hall.
by $100,” one party guest said after penciling in a bid during the silent auction portion of last night’s “Take Home a Nude” party, benefitting The New York Academy of Art. “I’m nervous...and excited.” With shots of Milagro tequila circling to give partygoers some added liquid courage, along with passed hors d’oeuvres from Sant Ambroeus, a healthy portion of the evening’s guests did, indeed, take home one of the 220 works on display.
But as it turned out, Shields was not only a bidder but an exhibitor, with two works on view that were created at the school’s. “I’m better at sitting for poses than I am at drawing them,” she joked to us, as she stopped for a chat in the atrium of Sotheby’s Auction House on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “You get past the nudity and into the art, and it’s an extraordinary thing for your brain to experience.
She was joined in her appreciation of the human form by Martha Hunt, donning a red Galvan slip dress as she perused the works on offer, eyeing a charcoal nude by Yelena Yemchuk.
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