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Société Anonyme, Inc.
Association founded in New York in 1920 by Katherine Sophie Dreier and Marcel Duchamp to promote the work of the international avant-garde. With the initial support of Man Ray they organized an extensive series of exhibitions, lectures, symposia and publications and established a reference library and acquisitions programme. Dreier modelled the association on the broad-ranging events and contemporary art exhibitions sponsored by Herwarth Walden’s Sturm-Galerie in Berlin. The name Société Anonyme was suggested by Man Ray to emphasize the association’s commitment to treating artists and art movements with impartiality. Following the group’s decision to form a corporation, making them the Société Anonyme, Inc., there was an obvious redundancy in their name that underscored their early links to Dada. This aspect of the association’s character waned with the departure of Duchamp and Man Ray to Paris at the end of the first year.
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- Société Anonyme
- Dreier, Katherine S.
- Duchamp, Marcel, §1(iii): 1915–23
- Kandinsky, Vasily, §3: The Bauhaus period, 1922–33
- Klee, Paul, §1(iii): The Bauhaus years, 1920–33
- Mondrian, Piet, §I, 3: Later career, after c 1924
- New York, §II, 3: Art life and organization, 1913–39
- Pevsner, Antoine
- USA, §III, 3: Painting and graphic arts: Modernism, to World War II
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