NYU’s Grey Art Museum Invites Us To ‘Make Way’ for a Most Notable Parisian Art Dealer, Berthe Weill

For anyone interested in early Modernism, ‘Make Way for Berthe Weill’ is not only informative but rife with sterling and sometimes revelatory works of art. It’s an energizing exhibition.

Via Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; gift of Dr. Max Stern
Kees van Dongen, 'La Femme au canapé' (c. 1920). Via Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; gift of Dr. Max Stern

Directly before entering a newly opened show at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde,” viewers encounter a small picture of a big personality, a 1933 portrait of the exhibition’s namesake by a Czech artist, George Kars. Surrounded by an abundance of casually stacked canvases, Weill is depicted as bug-eyed and stolid, her black raiment and erect carriage connoting immovability as much as eccentricity. 

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