[edit] Société Anonyme
Duchamp created the Société Anonyme in 1920, along with Katherine Dreier and Man Ray. This was the beginning of his life-long involvement in art dealing and collecting.
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.
In 1874 a group of artists, calling themselves "Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs,"—roughly "Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Inc."—opened an exhibition independent of the official Salon.
His work was included in what's regarded as the first exhibition of Impressionist art, the exhibition of the Société Anonyme des Artistes held on 15 April 1874.
This word was used to call Exposition des Impressionnistes an exhibit hold in the salons of the photographer Nadar and organized by the ``Société anonyme des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs'' [``Anonymous society of painters, ...
Together with Katherina Dreier he founded the "Société anonyme" for the propagation of modern art in America. Preference was given to anti-traditional, cubist, futurist and dadaist works.
 See also: Impression, Painting, Movement, Portrait, Avant-garde
  
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