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Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the
20th-century art world, available in English for the first time.
Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish
family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in
the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of
Paris's art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable
exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for
decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she
deserves. Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved
by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative
business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a
self-proclaimed "terrible businesswoman," Weill kept her gallery
open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism
before Germany's occupation of France. By the time of her death in
1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists-including
Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and
Suzanne Valadon-many of whom were women and nearly all young and
unknown when she first exhibited them. Pow! Right in the Eye! makes
Weill's provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English
readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a
lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.
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