The Forgotten Dealer Who Discovered Picasso and Matisse | New York Times, September 29, 2024

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 collectors of the era were overly concerned about whether the value of her emerging artists would rise. “I was afraid they had neither confidence nor perseverance,” she wrote.

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