Pow! Right in the eye! : thirty years behind the scenes of modern French painting / Berthe Weill ; edited by Lynn Gumpert ; translated from the French by William Rodarmor ; with research assistance from Marianne Le Morvan ; foreword by Julie Saul and Lynn Gumpert ; introduction by Marianne Le Morvan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weill, Berthe, 1865-1951, author.

Contributor:

Le Morvan, Marianne, writer of introduction.

Rodarmor, William, translator.

Saul, Julie, writer of supplementary textual content.

Gumpert, Lynn, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Abakanowicz arts and culture collection.

Abakanowicz arts and culture collection

Standardized Title:

Pan! Dans l'œil! English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Weill, Berthe, 1865-1951.

Weill, Berthe.

Galerie B. Weill.

Painters--France.

Painters.

Painting, French--20th century.

Painting, French.

Women art dealers--France--Paris.

Women art dealers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2022]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword-Julie Saul and Lynn Gumpert

Translator's Note: "Wrestling with Weill"-William Rodarmor

Introduction: "The Marvel of Montmartre"-Marianne Le Morvan

Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting

Appendix A. "Preface: First a Few Words"-Paul Reboux

Appendix B. "Avant-propos"-Berthe Weill

Appendix C. "Dolikhos's Beginnings"-Berthe Weill

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Glossary of Names

Notes

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-81453-X

OCLC:

1313880019