BIB_ID
413596
Accession number
MA 9076.82
Creator
Hessel, Jos, 1859-1942, sender.
Display Date
Cannes, France, 1941 August 21.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.7 x 20.8 cm
Notes
Stamped in red "SEP 06 1941."
Written on green paper.
Part of a large collection of letters from French artists primarily to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Items in the collection are cataloged individually as MA 9076.1-227.
See also MA 3500, a related collection that also comprises letters from French artists and writers to Paul Rosenberg, which was acquired by the Morgan as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg in 1980.
Written on green paper.
Part of a large collection of letters from French artists primarily to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Items in the collection are cataloged individually as MA 9076.1-227.
See also MA 3500, a related collection that also comprises letters from French artists and writers to Paul Rosenberg, which was acquired by the Morgan as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg in 1980.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Summary
Informing him that Roger Bernheim has been released and that he is in Paris. Hessel would like $5000 each for two paintings by Vuillard ([both called] "Femme dans les fleurs") that were in an exhibition in Buenos Aires. He has refused an offer to purchase Vuillard's "La Famille Roussel," which he does not want to sell. All of his artwork in his castle (le Chateau de Claye) was taken away (by the Nazis) and his gallery in Paris was sold for a very small amount of money (55,000 francs). He tells Rosenberg that his (Rosenberg's) house and gallery have been taken over to be the headquarters of the "Secretariat Against the Jews." Hessel is being visited by art dealers wishing to purchase the few paintings that he has left, but he does not want to sell under the present circumstances, which seems to displease them.
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