Auction of works of art and a gala in New York for the benefit of the restoration project of the Nina Simone house. The house is located in Tryon, in a rural county of North Carolina, in the southeast of the U.S.
It was on sale in 2017 when four artists, Julie Mehretu, Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson and Adam Pendleton, bought it for $95,000 to prevent it from falling into oblivion. The art gallery Pace organized the sale with the help of Sotheby's.