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Met Museum Receives Pritzker’s Promised Gift of 188 Dada and Surrealist Works

The donation underpins a new research initiative, supporting the museum’s expansion toward a dedicated modern wing.

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Overview

  • The Met announced a promised gift of 188 works by 37 Dada and Surrealist artists from trustee John A. Pritzker.
  • Thirty-five pieces from the gift will go on view in Man Ray: When Objects Dream, opening September 14, 2025 and running through February 1, 2026.
  • The donation includes more than 100 books, pamphlets and journals, plus funding to launch the Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism.
  • Museum leadership positioned the gift as bolstering preparations for the Oscar L. Tang and H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, with construction slated to start next year and finish by 2030.
  • Highlights include Man Ray’s Le violon d’Ingres (1924), Marcel Duchamp portfolios, Max Ernst’s The Punching Bag or The Immortality of Buonarroti (1920), and Giorgio de Chirico’s Dream of Tobias (1917).