by Tatsiana Zhurauliova
Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp at The Haven, Dreier’s estate in West Redding, Connecticut, with Duchamp’s Tu m’ (1918) above the bookshelf and The Large Glass (1915–23) in the forefront, 1936–37, Photo by Leslie E. Bowman, Gift of the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier. Photo courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
The Société Anonyme was an artists’ organization founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), and Man Ray (1890–1976). Over its existence from 1920 to 1950, the Société organized over eighty exhibitions of contemporary art and produced near thirty publications, in addition to assembling an extraordinary collection of artworks. A self-proclaimed “experimental museum” for modern art, it was managed by artists, allowing themselves, rather than critics and historians, to shape the narrative of the development of modern art. Corporation, Inc. Read more...