BIB_ID
413648
Accession number
MA 9076.104
Creator
Hessel, Jos, 1859-1942, sender.
Display Date
Cannes, France, 1942 March 23.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.8 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Stamped in red "JUN 15 1942."
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.
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
There has been a fire in Hessel's home, and then the worker who was replacing the floor burst a water pipe. He says that (Paul's brother) Edmond has communicated to him his question about Vuillard's painting "Femme dans le jardin" (see Rosenberg's response: MA 9076.103). Hessel doesn't want to sell this painting, which he thinks is one of Vuillard's best, unless he receives a higher offer than the one proposed by Rosenberg's client. He tells Rosenberg that works by Vuillard and Bonnard are selling for extremely high prices in France, and that a Matisse having belonged to Rosenberg sold for 850,000 francs (and a Bonnard for 600,000). However, he doesn't think that the elevated prices are due to the actual value of the paintings but rather to the low value of the wartime currency. All of Hessel's art and other belongings in Paris have been liquidated, and Hessel has not received a penny for them. The same thing happened to Georges Bernheim. Hessel announces with regret two art sales about to take place in Paris, for which, under other circumstances, he would have been the seller: One is "la vente (Henri) Canonne" (the Canonne collection) to be sold by Schoeller, Fabiani, and two others. The other is the "Armand Dorville collection," with paintings by Constantin Guys, Vuillard, Monet, Bonnard, (Alfred) de Dreux, etc. (Armand Dorville was a lawyer and art collector.)
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