[caption id="attachment_9508" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Ellsworth Kelly presenting Rob Pruitt with his autograph, with Glenn Fuhrmann."][/caption]

All photos by Roger Kisby.

The 2010 Gugenheim International Gala honoring Ellsworth Kelly and Julie Mehretu and sponsored by BMW raised over $2 million for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on November 8. Isabella and Theodor Dalenson and Amy Phelan were chairs for the evening that included an auction with works by Rob Pruitt, Joel Shapiro, Will Cotton, and Damien Hirst. Guests like Maurizio Cattelan, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, Eli and Edythe Broad, Lisa Dennison, and Frank Stella enjoyed dinner by Olivier Cheng and went home with a limited edition gift designed by Adam McEwen.

[caption id="attachment_9509" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum Richard Armstrong."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_9510" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Auction including work by Damien Hirst."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_9511" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Catherine de Zegher, Jessica Rankin, Julie Mehretu, John Silbermann, and Connie Butler."][/caption]

Justine Koons and Maria Baibakova.

[caption id="attachment_9513" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Kara Ross, Steve Ross, Gala co-chair Jennifer Stockman, and William Mack."][/caption]

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Honoree Ellsworth Kelly.