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The Arts Intel Report

Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde

Raoul Dufy, 30 ans ou la vie en rose, 1931.

Until Mar 1, 2025
18 Cooper Sq, New York, NY 10003, United States

Behind great male artists—think Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani—there are often great women. The great woman here is the art dealer Berthe Weill, who ran an eponymous gallery in Paris that she called “a place for the young.” From 1909 to 1939, she tirelessly championed the avant-garde, starting with the Fauves (André Derain, Georges Braque, Henri Manguin) and then moving to the Cubists (Picasso, Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes.) Weill’s role in 20th-century Modernism is not always in the history books, however, and she’s still not as well known as her male peers. This exhibition presents 110 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures, all of which spent time in Weill’s gallery at 60 rue Taitbout. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: CC0 Paris Musées / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York