[GODEBSKA Maria - Misia Sert] Greeting card with notes on the reverse. [after 1927]

Business card most likely belonging to Maria "Misi" Godebska. On the front an inscription in French: "Vogue - Information Department" along with the exact address. On the back a note in French: "Je dive avec Mme Calve et rentrerai a 9" (translated as "I dive with Mme Calve and will be back at 9"). Dimensions: 6.4 x 9.4 cm.
Godebska collaborated with Vogue magazine for years, her photos appearing in French editions of the magazine in 1933, among others [Lit. Kossak K. E., Towards Miska of Godebska, Warsaw 1978]. The offered visiting card probably dates from after 1927, when Misia divorced painter Jose Marie Sert and remained unmarried since then.

Maria Godebska (Italian: Misia Sert) (1872-1950) - daughter of sculptor Cyprian Godebski, protector and muse of many artists. Thanks to her first husband, Tadeusz Natanson, one of the founders of the magazine Revue blanche, she got to know the entire Parisian bohemia of the fin de siecle era. The Natansons' guests at the time included: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pierre Bonnard. Among the literati, she knew Emil Zola, Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, among others. She also counted fashion designers like Coco Chanel among her friends.
Misia Godenska was portrayed by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, among others.