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Lecture by Lynn Gumpert: Making Way for Berthe Weill, Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
Fritz Ascher Society, January 22, 2025

“Making Way for Berthe Weill, Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”
Lecture by Lynn Gumpert
Organized by: The Fritz Ascher Society

Original date: January 22, 2025

Berthe Weill (1865–1951) was a trailblazing art dealer who exhibited works by emerging artists in her Parisian gallery from 1901 to 1941. Even though many of them went on to become key avant-garde figures, Weill’s role has been omitted from most historical accounts of 20th-century modernism. In this presentation, Lynn Gumpert, a co-curator of the first exhibition on Weill, and director of NYU’s Grey Art Museum, provides an overview of this remarkable woman.

This event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. Stories of Artists Under Repression” organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York. It is co-sponsored by The Grey Art Museum.