Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
Berthe Weill
Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Business Aspects, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9782080447203
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $60.00
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This book offers a rich introduction to the life and work of art dealer Berthe Weill—the risk-taking, rule-breaking facilitator of the modernist art movement in Paris.
This book and the accompanying traveling exhibition survey the groundbreaking career of Berthe Weill (1865–1951), the first female modern art dealer. She championed many fledgling masters of modern art from early in their careers—including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amedeo Modigliani—as well as numerous other talented artists. Examining Weill’s contributions to the history of modernism as a gallerist, a passionate advocate of contemporary art, and a Jew, this book brings to light the remarkable achievements of a singular figure who overcame sexism and anti-Semitism in her quest to promote emerging artists.
The exhibition, co-organized by New York University’s Grey Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, features some eighty artworks that were originally displayed at her gallery during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
About the authors
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Anne Grace is Curator of Modern Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Her past curatorial exhibition projects at the MMFA include Peintures barbares : hommage à Jean McEwen, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, In Memorium: Antoni Tàpies, Multiplicity: Post-War American Prints and Drawings from the Collection, and Van Dongen: Painting the Town Fauve. She has also been the curator responsible for the presentations at the MMFA of Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus, Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, and From Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Expressionism in Germany and France, 1900-1914. Previous to her position at the MMFA, she worked at the National Gallery of Canada.
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