[Rarebooks] FS: Memoirs of Berthe Weill, the first woman art gallery owner in Paris and the first dealer of all to show Picasso, Matisse, and many other modern artists

[Robin Bledsoe]

For your consideration, offered here first:

Berthe Weill./Pan!.. //Dans l’oeil..: Ou trente ans dans les coulisses 
de la peinture contemporaine 1900-1930./Paris : Librairie Lipschutz, 
1933.No. 97 of 500 copies on vélin du Marais.
$450. + s/h (trade discount)

Memoirs of this pioneering dealer and champion of modern art.In her 
biographer’s words, Weill, “a Jewish woman of modest origins,” “was the 
first woman ever to open an art gallery which she did in a tiny little 
shop in Montmartre in 1901.” (It was some decades before any other women 
followed her example.) She was the first dealer to show the paintings of 
Picasso (1902), Matisse, Bonnard, Braque, Dufy, Léger, Maillol, and 
others.She showed the Fauves very early on, various women artists, and 
in 1917 she gave Modigliani his only exhibition during his lifetime. A 
survivor of two world wars, she died in her mid-eighties in 1951.

325 pp. + 4 plates: 2 by Picasso (including frontispiece portrait of 
Weill) and 1 color pochoir each by Dufy and Pascin.Newly rebound 
paperbound, with most of the original front paper cover laid 
down.Internally very good.In a handsome custom-made clamshell box (rust 
cloth, gilt-stamped black spine label); small stain to one of the hidden 
sides of the box.

Not yet listed on our online sites.  Scan of cover available on request.

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