Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide ran
Chagall, c. 1920
Marc Chagall's childhood home in Vitebsk, Belarus. Currently site of the Marc Chagall Museum.
Marc Chagall, 1912, The Spoonful of Milk (La Cuillerée de lait), gouache on paper
Portrait of Chagall by Yehuda Pen, his first art teacher in Vitebsk
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
Marc Chagall
…over, Russia had played a memorable initial role in his life." Chagall stayed in Saint Petersburg until 1910, often visiting Vitebsk where he met Bella Rosenfeld. In My Life, Chagall described his first meeting her: "Her silence is mine, her eyes mine. It is as if she knows everything about my childhood, my…
Chagall in 1923
Rosenfeld and Chagall on a Belarus stamp, 1993
Bella with White Collar, by Marc Chagall, 1917.