“Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani: Berthe Weill, the forgotten gallery owner behind the great names”
Make Way for Berthe Weill Exhibition Review
Libération, October 10, 2024
by Camille Paix
A New York exhibition restores the place of this dealer from the beginning of the 20th century, who had the eye and the genius to discover the great names of the pictorial avant-garde, not hesitating to give a chance to budding artists.
The first female gallery owner in France, the first to exhibit Matisse, the first to sell Picassos on which she made a pittance… And yet she was unknown to the rest of the world. Berthe Weill, a small, round, bespectacled woman, may have rubbed shoulders with the great artists of her time and paved the way for the avant-garde, but her life and work, like so many others, have been covered by the veil of oblivion.