From 8 October 2025 to 26 January 2026 at the Orangerie

It is not only art that is avant-garde, the contribution of certain gallery owners is just as important. One such figure was Berthe Weill, a rare woman in this milieu, who opened a gallery at 25 Rue Victor-Massé in the Pigalle district in 1901. Her aim was to showcase the work of little-known artists who would go on to become the great names of the century, including Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani, as well as female artists such as Emilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon. Berthe Weill was their spokesperson, committing herself to them and their potential audience for forty years, until her gallery closed in 1940 following the first persecutions of Jews in France during the Holocaust.

Exposition Berthe Weill. Galeriste d’avant-garde | Musée de l’Orangerie