Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985
The Praying Jew
1923
Marc Chagall's 'The Praying Jew (Rabbi of Vitebsk)' (1914) is a Russian-Jewish religious portrait by the artist painted in the year he returned from Paris to his native Vitebsk. Wrapped in a black-and-white prayer shawl and tefillin, the old man embodies the Yiddish piety of Chagall's childhood. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago