Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde at New York University’s Grey Art Museum Is a Revelation
Natalya Terk Natalya Terk

Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde at New York University’s Grey Art Museum Is a Revelation

In December 1901, just after her thirty-sixth birthday, Berthe Weill used her modest dowry of 4,000 francs to fund her aesthetic passion and opened a gallery dedicated solely to modern art. In the decades to come, she would become a champion for then-unknown artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Galerie B. Weill would host the first exhibition of Diego Rivera in Paris, the only exhibition of Amedeo Modigliani during his lifetime, and would be the first to show the art of Fauvism and Cubism to the public. So, how come Berthe Weill's name and accomplishments disappeared from art history? The new exhibition at the Grey Museum is set to explain and correct this injustice.

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