Make Way for Berthe Weill: Article (FR)
“Berthe Weill, la pionnière des galeristes parisiennes, célébrée au Grey Art Museum de New York”
French Morning, September 19, 2024
By Vincent Pialat
Berthe Weill was a Jewish woman who ran an art gallery in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. That alone would have justified dedicating an exhibition to her a century later. It so happens that Berthe Weill was also the one who revealed a large part of the European avant-garde of that time: Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani owe a lot to her for having been first exhibited at her home, in the small shop that she ran with an iron fist in Montmartre. It is this fascinating story that the Grey Art Museum , the museum of New York University (NYU), proposes to revisit from Tuesday, October 1st.
The exhibition is called “Make Way for Berthe Weill” and openly refers to the “Place aux jeunes” that the French gallery owner had printed on the back of her business cards. “While other galleries continued to promote the Impressionists, Berthe Weill was highlighting these new figures who were emerging; she was the only one focusing on these young artists,” recalls the very Francophile Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Museum.
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