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Bella chagall biography


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  • Bella Chagall, née Rosenfeld, was born to a prosperous Orthodox Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia (present-day Belarus).
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    The Flying Lovers: Bella and Marc Chagall

    A love story is always a good read, especially if it’s such a magical and touching history as that of Bella and Marc Chagall.

    Unfortunately there is a sad ending, so be prepared.

    Love at First Sight

    They fell for each other in 1909 in Saint Petersburg. Bella Rosenfeld, was the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy Russian jeweler.

    This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up.

    Marc Chagall, seven years her senior, was a painter still attending art school. They both said it was love at the first sight. Rosenfeld, who was to become a talented writer, described how Chagall looked on their first encounter:

    When you did catch a glimpse of his eyes, they were as blue as if they’d fallen straight out of the sky.

    They were strange eyes … Long, almond-shaped … And each seemed to sail along by itself, like a little boat.

    Bella Rosenfeld, quoted in “Head over heels in love: Marc and Bella Chagall’s spectacular romance”, The Guardian.

    Chagall also wrote about this meeting in My Life, his