BIB_ID
413624
Accession number
MA 9076.89
Creator
Hessel, Jos, 1859-1942, sender.
Display Date
Cannes, France, 1941 April 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 "MAY 14 1941."
Written on yellow 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 yellow 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
Hessel has received two letters and a telegram from Rosenberg. As soon as he got the telegram, he sent the French Consulate his authorization to allow Rosenberg to take possession of the two paintings from Buenos Aires. Since all of Hessel's papers and receipts are in Paris, he would like Rosenberg to draw up a list of all Hessel's paintings that he is keeping for him. He has shown Rosenberg's letters to Georges Bernheim and will convey his wish (unspecified) to Gaston (Bernheim-Jeune). Rosenberg's packages are still not arriving. Hessel says that Rosenberg should send them through the American Red Cross, specifying that they are for an 82-year-old man. Maybe that way he can receive them. Hessel speaks of how difficult it is to live in wartime but hopes for a better future. He is planning to move to the Hotel Gray et d'Albion, in Cannes (where this letter was written,) if he can get his furniture from Paris. His belongings and works of art from the Chateau des Clayes were all taken away (by the Nazis). (Marcel) Kapferer has just sold his Vuillard "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" for $5000. Hessel says that if Rosenberg can get a good price for his (Hessel's) two Vuillards "Femme dans les fleurs", he should sell them.
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