NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s Chairman’s Circle Dinner

Featuring Pablo Picasso: Ceramics and Works on Paper premiere

At NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s elegant Chairman’s Circle Dinner on March 11, hosted by Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG, the museum unveiled an exciting gift to its permanent collection — a major painting by renowned artist Julian Schnabel that was generously donated to the museum by his former wife, the actress and model, Olatz Schnabel. Her gift followed the museum’s recent successful presentation of the exhibition, Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen, which featured Julian Schnabel’s paintings, and also recognized the long-term support of his work by Bonnie Clearwater, NSU Art Museum Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. The large-scale 1997 painting, titled Portrait of Olatz Schnabel, will be on view at the museum through November 1 along with four other paintings by Julian Schnabel on loan from Olatz Schnabel’s collection.

The festive evening, which included cocktails and an art-inspired dinner in the museum’s stylish second-floor Curve, also celebrated the opening of the museum’s exhibition Pablo Picasso: Painted Ceramics and Works on Paper. Made possible with support from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Berger Singerman, and Eugene and Paula Stevens, the exhibition features works created by Picasso from 1931-71, among them exceptional ceramics, etchings, aquatints and linocuts from the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale collection.

Among the evenings distinguished guests: Julian Schnabel; Olatz Schnabel; Christine and Andrew Hall; Patrice Humbel, museum board member and Executive Director, Branch Manager and Wealth Management Advisor with Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG; Bonnie Clearwater, NSU Art Museum Director and Chief Curator; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Board Chairman David Horvitz and wife, artist and board member Francie Bishop Good; Nova Southeastern University President, Dr. George L. Hanbury II and wife Jana; Dan Lewis; Manuel Gonzalez of New York and Miami; board members Stanley and Pearl Goodman whose collection of Mexican modern art is also currently on view at the museum, Picasso exhibition sponsors Gregory O’Shea of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and Mitchell Berger, Co-Chair and Partner, Berger Singerman and his wife and board member Sharon; board member Eugene Stevens and his wife Paula; board member Lise Hirsch and husband Leland; board member Bonnie Barnett and husband Dr. Robert Kagan; ; board member Miles Forman and wife Tara; Board member Linda Marks and Berenice Fisher; board member Wayne Gilmore; board member Dr. Scott Anagnoste; board member Dr. Berry Silverman and wife Judy; board member Laura Palmer and husband Charles; board member Ada Cole and husband Jim; board member Mark Walter; and board member Walker Duvall and wife Millicent.

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