Gumpert raised the profile of the museum by presenting innovative exhibitions and leading its move to a larger space at Cooper Square. [Download Press Release] (NEW YORK, NY, November 15, 2024)—Lynn Gumpert, who has served as director of New York University’s Grey Art Museum since 1997, will retire in mid-April 2025. During her tenure, the […]
The devotion of the gallerist Berthe Weill, who was a champion of Picasso and Modigliani, to the cause of modern art is finding belated – and well deserved – recognition. By Tom Stammers If in English, the genre of memoirs by art dealers probably begins with William Buchanan in 1824, it was another century before […]
By Jessica Robinson Berthe Weill, a fiercely independent Jewish Parisian art dealer, was a woman ahead of her time. With a keen eye for the avant-garde, she helped launch the careers of some of the most iconic names in modern art. Picasso? She sold his first works. Modigliani? She organized his one and only solo […]
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 […]
By Laura Preston NEW YORK CITY — Twenty-two years ago, the late curator Julie Saul was reading a copy of Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth Century Art (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1995), Michael C. Fitzgerald’s study of Picasso and the dealers, collectors and critics who supported his career. The dealers […]
Berthe Weill (1865-1951) promoted Matisse and Modigliani, and was Picasso’s first dealer. This overdue show will include many pieces that once hung in her gallery. (Oct. 1, 2024-March 1, 2025; Grey Art Museum, NYU) [Read more]
A show at the Grey Art Museum re-establishes Berthe Weill as a guiding light of the Parisian avant-garde. Her rediscovery has been led by women. By Hilarie M. Sheets “A collection of paintings isn’t like a stock portfolio,” the Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill declared in her 1933 memoir, “Pow! Right in the Eye!” She was lamenting that novice […]
“Make Way for Berthe Weill” at Grey Art Museum in New York brings to light the forgotten legacy of the cutting-edge Parisian dealer By Karen Chernick The paintings would sometimes still be wet when Berthe Weill rushed to show them at her little Parisian gallery. Why wait, she thought, hanging the fresh artworks from a […]
Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde Grey Art Museum, New York 1 October 2024 to 1 March 2025 Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Suzanne Valadon and Raoul Dufy are just a few of the icons championed by Berthe Weill, the first woman modern art dealer. Weill, who maintained a gallery in […]
Fall Preview This packed season features Scott Burton, Alvin Ailey and the Brooklyn Museum’s 200th birthday. MAKE WAY FOR BERTHE WEILL: ART DEALER OF THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE Berthe Weill (1865-1951) promoted Matisse and Modigliani, and was Picasso’s first dealer. This overdue show will include many pieces that once hung in her gallery. (Oct. 1-March 1, […]