28 January 2020 - 28 January 2020 . 18:30 - 22:45

BFAMI 2020 Gala Dinner & Art Auction

BFAMI Annual Gala Dinner and Auction took place at Battersea on Tuesday 28th January 2020.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE AUCTION ITEMS INCLUDING WORKS BY EDMUND DE WAAL, OBE, RON ARAD, RA, SIR DAVID ADJAYE, OBE, ZOYA CHERKASSKY, ALISON WATT, OBE AND MORE.

The evening raised more than £650,000 to support educational programmes run by leading art museums across Israel. The total included £80,000 for Annie Leibovitz’s iconic portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken hours before Lennon’s death.

The guest of honour was Edmund de Waal, the internationally acclaimed artist and author of the best-selling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes,who spoke during the evening and donated, courtesy of Gagosian, a beautiful work in porcelain, gold, silver and alabaster to the auction.

Christie’s auctioneer Hugh Edmeades conducted the live auction with lots including David Bailey’s famous portrait of Jean Shrimpton, one of the defining images of 1960s Swinging London and Ron Arad’s 3D printed Genius work created in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.