"The Metropolitan Museum of Art's holdings of works from the early 20th century associated with Dada and Surrealism just received a major boost thanks to John Pritzker, a collector, museum trustee and billionaire private equity manager based in San Francisco. On Monday (8 September), the Met announced it has received a promised gift from Pritzker that includes 188 works by 37 artists associated with these movements, including Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp, Lee Miller, Beatrice Wood, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters."
"As I've built the collection, Man Ray has been a central figure, especially as a person who moved between groups and connected ideas. Artists in his circle, such as Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, were, like Man Ray, instigators and innovators. Together, this group broke down barriers of what defined a painting, sculpture, text or photograph, and more-what art itself could be."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a promised gift of 188 works by 37 artists associated with Dada and Surrealism from collector and trustee John Pritzker. The Bluff Collection includes works by Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp, Lee Miller, Beatrice Wood, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters. Thirty-five pieces from the gift will be included in the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream (14 September–1 February 2026), featuring iconic images such as Le violon d'Ingres (1924) and Noire et blanche (1926). Pritzker centered his collection on interwar experimentation and artists who blurred boundaries between media.
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