In 1918, Dreier asked Duchamp to make a painting to go above the bookshelves in her New York apartment: the famous, rarely traveled Tu m'. Hung high on a wall here, the long, scroll-like canvas, which Duchamp claimed was his last oil painting, is dotted with the shadows of ready-mades and a flying color spectrum. The meaning of the intriguing title was never specified, but the letters begin the French phrase “Tu m'aime” — “You love me.”
Whatever the nature of Dreier and Duchamp's long-lasting symbiosis, it has a living monument in the collection of the Societe Anonyme.
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