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For about four decades through 2009, worshippers at Kesher Israel Congregation enjoyed a cultural experience unique to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It occurred once each year, always during the afternoon break in the Yom Kippur prayer services, when they could view a massive, Marc Chagall-designed mosaic affixed to a brick wall in the shaded garden of a home across the street. The house belonged to a widow who, along with her husband, knew the famed French artist.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A portrait photo<\/a> of Marc Chagall, likely taken in Paris in the early 1920s. The signature of the photographer, Henri Manuel, appears below. The Abraham Schwadron Portrait Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In the early 1990s, Fran Kritz, a synagogue congregant then, saw Bible scholar Nahum Sarna studying Talmud there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt felt like different moments of Jewish history coming together,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019d have thought there was no way to elevate this beautiful garden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hostess, Evelyn Nef, didn\u2019t attend the synagogue, never explained her invitation to its leadership and rarely was present during the visits. She simply sent a note before each year\u2019s High Holy Days to extend the offer, then left the gate open on the appointed afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe told me she was Jewish but that, at age 7, she lost all faith in religion,\u201d said David Epstein, another congregant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as Chagall created the work and presented it in 1971 as a gift to Nef and her husband, John (he died in 1989), she apparently decided to share it with the synagogue that still stands at the corner of 28th and N streets in the Georgetown neighborhood of the city\u2019s northwest quadrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chagall was born in Belarus on July 7, 1887. He spent most of his life in France and died in 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A portrait photo<\/a> of Marc Chagall, taken in Paris in 1925. It features a handwritten dedication by Chagall to Abraham Schwadron. The Abraham Schwadron Portrait Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The shul\u2019s Chagall-viewing tradition began shortly after word emerged about the mosaic\u2019s installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken Horowitz might have been the first congregant to see it, and perhaps inadvertently spurred Nef to issue the annual invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horowitz was among a handful of worshippers who, after services \u2014 he remembers it being a holiday, but not which one \u2014 jumped near the property\u2019s outer wall trying to glimpse the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nef invited them into the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was well worth it. It was a gorgeous mosaic,\u201d said Horowitz.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Orph\u00e9e<\/a><\/em> by Marc Chagall, the John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It certainly was imposing: 10\u2019 x 17\u2019 (3m x 5.2m), mounted on a 30\u2019-high (9m) brick wall that Chagall painted gray. Chagall had told the Nefs what it depicted, according to a story she wrote in The Washington Post<\/em> in 1972. The main figures at the center come from Greek mythology: Orpheus playing a lute, ringed by the Three Graces and the winged horse Pegasus. In blue at the bottom-left lies a body of water at which people stand; Nef paraphrased Chagall as saying it symbolizes European Jewish refugees like himself who escaped the Nazis\u2019 persecution for shelter in the United States. In the bottom-right, a man in blue-green and a woman in purple sit against a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nef asked Chagall whether the couple represents her and John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you like,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marc Chagall during a visit to Israel in 1951, photo<\/a> by Rudi Weissenstein, all rights reserved to Pri-Or PhotoHouse, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The mosaic of stone and glass tiles was executed by Italian artist Lino Melano, who worked in a studio in Biot, a French village near Nice, close to Chagall\u2019s studio in St. Paul de Vence. Melano, Chagall and Chagall\u2019s wife Valentine visited Washington to oversee the installation of the mosaic\u2019s 10 panels and attend a dedication ceremony where France\u2019s ambassador spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nefs hosted the Chagalls at least once before, in 1968. Chagall told them then he\u2019d create art for their home to honor the couples\u2019 friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen, toward the end of the visit, Marc announced one morning at breakfast: \u2018Nothing for the house. The house is perfect as it is. But I will do something for the garden. A mosaic,\u2019 \u201d Nef wrote in the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chagalls and Nefs had vacationed together for several summers in southern France. In 1970, at his studio \u2014 \u201cthe holy of holies,\u201d Nef wrote of visiting it \u2014 Chagall showed them a watercolor maquette, or scale model, of the mosaic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith some ceremony, Marc approached a large brown paper-covered rectangle on the wall,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAfter a short speech, he tore off the covering to reveal a stunning, brilliantly colored gouache design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marc Chagall during a visit to Israel in 1951, photo<\/a> by Rudi Weissenstein, all rights reserved to Pri-Or PhotoHouse, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Viewing the work in the Nefs\u2019 garden was a striking experience, said Epstein, because \u201csometimes, when the sun hit it, the gold in it would gleam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was amazing it was in somebody\u2019s backyard,\u201d said American diplomat Daniel Renna, who twice saw the mosaic while attending Kesher Israel between 1995 and 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Nef, a University of Chicago economics professor, had been collecting art, including two Chagalls, by the time he befriended Chagall after inviting him to lecture at the campus in 1946. A widower, he met the divorced-and-widowed Evelyn in Washington and married her in 1964. Neither had children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She by then was an expert on Arctic exploration (her second husband\u2019s field), and later became a psychotherapist. She was active in Washington\u2019s social circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She died in 2009, bequeathing the mosaic and other pieces, including Chagall works, to Washington\u2019s National Gallery of Art. Conservators in 2010 painstakingly disassembled the mosaic and transported it to the museum, where it\u2019s been displayed since 2013 in a sculpture garden. It even acquired a name, Orph\u00e9e<\/em>. (It was untitled during the Nefs\u2019 ownership.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piece is \u201cmonumental,\u201d among Chagall\u2019s largest mosaics, said Harry Cooper, the National Gallery\u2019s curator of modern art. Its acquisition \u201cfilled a major gap\u201d in the museum\u2019s Chagall holdings, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Orph\u00e9e<\/a><\/em> by Marc Chagall, the John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe flying figures is pure Chagall. The flowing colors, beautiful colors \u2014 that\u2019s Chagall,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cHe gives people this sense of magic, freedom, flight \u2014 all these things we really need \u2026 as an escape from daily life. It\u2019s a bit of the Mediterranean or Atlantic in our sculpture garden, whatever beautiful spot you want to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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A portrait<\/a> of Marc Chagall drawn by fellow artist Hermann Struck. The portrait was donated to the National Library by Struck himself in 1930. The Abraham Schwadron Portrait Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Kesher Israel congregants who enjoyed the Chagall mosaic on long-ago Yom Kippur afternoons praise Nef\u2019s gesture today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a wonderful experience. I remember thinking how generous it was of her to allow a select public to come in,\u201d said Jerusalem resident Ruth Frank, who saw the mosaic, in either the late 1980s or early 1990s, while attending the synagogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a lovely place to spend the [Yom Kippur] break,\u201d said Edith Gelfand, of Florida, who also viewed the mosaic once during her years in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Kritz: \u201cIt was a lovely invitation by this woman. To me, it became a holy opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler can be reached at <\/em>hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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