COLLECTION OF THE SOCIETE ANONYME. DOUBLE SIGNED DUCHAMP + DREIR

HAND DEDICATED AND SIGNED BY BOTH DUCHAMP AND DREIER TO HEKKING

(Duchamp, Marcel)
(Societe Anonyme).
COLLECTION OF THE SOCIETE ANONYME: Museum of Modern Art 1920. Introduction by Katherine S. Dreier. Catalogue compiled and planned by Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. Edited by George Heard Hamilton.
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950.
4to. xxii, 223pp. 138 b/w reproductions of works. Catalogue list of 616 works. Original wrappers. The essential catalogue documentation of this fundamental and pioneering collection of 20th century art, as assembled by The Societe Anonyme, Inc.. (i.e. Dreier, Duchamp, et. al.) beginning in 1920. Artists represented in the collection include: Brancusi, Braque, de Chirico, Duchamp, Ernst, Hartley, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Mondrian, O'Keefe, Picabia, Picasso, Severini, Stieglitz, among many others. Some slight sunning and wear to wrappers, end leaves mechanically trimmed, else a more than solid example. There was also a simultaneous cloth issue. This copy is inscribed & signed by both Katherine Dreier & Marcel Duchamp in the year of publication to Dr. William M. Hekking, former director of the Albright Art Gallery (now the Albright-Knox) in Buffalo and one of the early exhibitors of the work forming the collection. Dreier's brief acknowledgement page also bears the blindstamp of Dr. Hekking. A nearly fine copy (with two slight white marks to the front cover, and minor sunning around the edges of the blue wrappers) with a first class double association. Schwarz (Biblio. ref. 80)