A handwritten postcard with an autograph and a wish from the artist Marc Chagall
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"Beloved Bella Naumovna. Where are you, if in the city - come soon. I'm leaving for Paris on Tuesday evening. If you are not in the city, goodbye. And I hope the connection with you will not be lost. Devoted Marc Chagall."
The postcard was signed on August 19, 1923 in Berlin, a few weeks before Chagall and his family moved to Paris at the invitation of Ambroise Vollard. Everyone knows the love story of Marc Chagall and his muse Bella, whom he married in 1915. But few people are familiar with the story of another Bella, who occupied an important place in the artist's life.
In 1908-1910, Marc Chagall visited Narva, staying at the estate of the famous Narva businessman Nahum Hermont. He came at the invitation of lawyer Gregory Goldberg, who was married to one of the Hermont sisters. Here he painted several of his works (for example, "Portrait of the artist's Sister"), in which you can meet Bella Hermont, the daughter of a merchant of the first guild. He met her at Cape Ferdinandshof in 1908.
Chagall later wrote in his autobiographical book "My Life": "... I remember spacious rooms, shady trees on the seashore and lovely women: the lawyer's wife and her sister Hermont." The lawyer's wife, Anna Naumovna, had five sisters. In a letter to his sister Anyuta, the artist invites her to come to stay in Narva at the cape to the Hermont sisters, saying that "he will be glad to introduce her to Bella Naumovna — not at all provincial."
They were connected with Bella Hermont not only by a deep feeling, but also by a common interest. She enjoyed learning to draw and was equally happy to teach Moishe French. Later, in Berlin and Paris, she would become a French teacher for his daughter Ida, already being the wife of the famous pianist Vitaly Yakovlevich Schnee.
So, the young artist, at that time little known to anyone, found himself between two Bellas: Bella (Bertha) from Vitebsk, whom he had already wooed by that time, and Bella (Baila, as she was called in the family) from Narva. The fact that Chagall and Bella Hermont had a secret affair was well known in her family, but this topic was never widely discussed.
Material: paper.
Sizes: 57.3 × 47 × 2.6 cm .