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Ahwatukee Announcements Flight: Chagall, Miró, and the Plight of Refugees Gebert Contemporary to Exhibit Rare Collection of 20th Century Artists and their Interpretation of the Refugee Experience Proceeds to Benefit the International Rescue Committee Phoenix The International Rescue Committee Phoenix is pleased to announce a partnership with Gebert Contemporary, in Scottsdale, to showcase a rare collection of 20th Century Artists July 1st - 15th: Flight: Chagall, Miró, and the Plight of Refugees. This is a very special portfolio of 12 individual works by 20th Century masters representing their interpretation of the struggle of those who flee from their homes in search of freedom. The collection consists of 11 lithographs and 1 serigraph. The exhibit includes the works of 12 master artists: Eugene Berman, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Viera da Silva, Adolph Gottlieb, Wifredo Lam, Jacques Lipchitz, André Masson, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell (serigraph), Edouard Pignon, and Fritz Wotruba. The Flight series was originally organized by American WWII hero Varian Fry, an International Rescue Committee representative in France during WWII , who rescued over 1,500 writers, artists, intellectuals, and over 2,000 other refugees. Among those Fry helped rescue were Hannah Arendt, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wand Landowska, Jacques Lipchitz, and Heinrich Mann. In the 1960

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