Who Was Berthe Weill? The Story of the Audacious Parisian Dealer Who Launched Matisse and Modigliani | Artnet News, October 3, 2024

"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 clothesline with pins. Weill was famously fast and furious during the four decades she ran the Galerie B. Weill, showing only emerging modernist artists (often when they were complete nobodies). It’s no small irony, then, that it’s taken a full decade to retrace Weill’s swift steps and arrange a show about her and the iconic (and long-since dried) canvases that graced her walls.

Continue Reading