Une galeriste d'avant-garde sous-estimée : Berthe Weill

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An Avant-Garde and Understudied Gallery Owner, Berthe Weill, by Marianne Le Morvan Berthe Weill (1865-1951) was an important gallery owner of the modern period who has been largely forgotten. At the heart of the art market, she appears, in fact, to be intimately linked to the names of the most well-known artists of the period, such as Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani. It is only recently that we have discovered an archival collection documenting Weill's acquisitions. This previously unpublished documentation traces the contours of an almost forty-year long career that was critical in revealing major artistic currents from the turn of the 20th century onwards. Ample research has allowed us to learn more about her private life and situation during the Second World War. Berthe Weill appears as one of the rare pillars of the modern art market to have suffered relatively little from antisemitic persecution.