Snow, Winter in Vitebsk  1911

Born to a Hassidic Jewish family in the provincial capital of Vitebsk in western Russia in 1887, Marc Chagall displayed the talent and vocation of an artist from his early schooldays. In 1907 in St. Petersburg, he studied at the Imperial School of Fine Arts and then privately under Léon Bakst, the Russian painter, illustrator, and stage designer. Chagall himself later beca...