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Place à Berthe Weill!

Information

Length

1h00

Language

French

Audience

For Members only

Type of activity

Lecture

Mode

In Person
For Members only

Free of charge

 
Wednesday May 7, 2025 at 06:00 pm

Join the exhibition’s curators for a fascinating look at the life of gallery owner Berthe Weill and learn about her close ties to some of the world’s greatest artists, such as Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Valadon and Modigliani.

Panelists: 
Anne Grace, Curator of Modern Art, MMFA
Marianne Le Morvan, guest curator and founder of the Berthe Weill Archives
Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Museum, New York University(1997 to 2025)
Sophie Eloy, Associate Curator at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris


Lecture
Public Partners: Conseil des arts de Montréal and Government of Quebec
Major Patron: Fondation de la Chenelière

Exhibition
Collaborating Partner: Tourisme Montréal
Public Partners: Conseil des arts de Montréal and Government of Quebec
Official Sponsors: Air Canada, Air Canada Cargo and Denalt Paints
Media Partner: Bell and La Presse

 

About the panelists
Holder of a PhD in art history, Marianne Le Morvan founded the Berthe Weill Archives and published the first monograph on the gallery owner. She is curator of the Fonds de dotation Léon Delachaux in Paris, as well as an independent curator, provenance researcher and author of books and documentaries on little-known figures in the world of art. Her second book on Berthe Weill will be released by Flammarion in October 2025.

Art historian Sophie Eloy has held successive positions with the Fonds national d’art contemporain, in the Paintings Department at the Musée du Louvre, and at the Musée de la vie romantique in Paris, where she served as assistant director from 2011 to 2018. Since 2018, she has been a member of the curatorial department at the Musée de l’Orangerie, where she works as a collection manager, exhibition curator and head of the Contemporary Counterpoints program.

Lynn Gumpert has organized exhibitions on four continents. For 28 years, she served as Director of New York University’s Grey Art Museum. She received a BA from UC Berkeley, and an MA from the University of Michigan. From 1980 to 1988, she worked at the New Museum, NY, and, in 1994, authored a monograph on Christian Boltanski (Flammarion). In 1999, the French government named her Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Anne Grace is Curator of Modern Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, a position she has held since 2007. Grace has co-organized several major exhibitions at the MMFA, including Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor (2018-2019), From Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Impressionism to Expressionism, 1900-1914 (2014-2015), and more recently Joyce Wieland: Heart On.

About the series
The Preshow gives the public an in-depth preview of the Museum’s new exhibition, as shared by those who brought it to life.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West

Reservation terms: Please note that seat reservations are held until the beginning of the event. Once the activity has started, any unoccupied seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

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