deaths
September 2, 1944
Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (born 1895)
Bella Rosenfeld
Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, 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 posthumously in Bouquet près de la fenêtre, painted in 1959–1960.