Bella Rosenfeld
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Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was a Russian Jewish writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including Bella au col blanc in 1917, and appears pos
Chagall in 1923
Rosenfeld and Chagall on a Belarus stamp, 1993
Bella with White Collar, by Marc Chagall, 1917.
Léon Bakst
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Léon Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Rus
Bella Rosenfeld
…Vitebsk (present-day Belarus), into a wealthy Jewish family of jewellers. She met Marc Chagall in 1909 who at that time was a penniless apprentice of Léon Bakst. According to Marc, their love started the moment they saw each other and continued for 35 years. Chagall painted his first portrait of her that same…
Self-Portrait, 1893, oil on cardboard, 34 × 21 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Carnival in Paris in Honour of the Russian Navy; c. 20th-century.
Uriel da Costa (1897), an imaginary portrait of the 17th century critic of contemporary religious orthodoxies, was one of Léon Bakst's earliest paintings
For Cléopâtre by Mikhail Fokine; 1910.