Over four decades, Weill championed artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon but she remains a footnote in the history of art dealing. This provocative 1933 memoir is 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”, says the publisher in a statement. She was also a leading gallerist in the male-dominated art world in Paris during the early 20th century, opening Galerie B. Picasso biographer John Richardson described Berthe Weill as a “homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls”. Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting, Lynn Gumpert (editor), The University of Chicago Press, $22.50/£18.00, 280pp (pb)
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