MARITAIN, RAISSA (1883–1960) Chagall ou l´orage Enchanté. Geneve; Paris: Еditions des trois collines, 1948. In French.

196, [10] pp.: ill.; 24.5 × 19 cm. – (Great Artists Through the Eyes of Their Friends). In French. In a plain publisher’s dust jacket and an illustrated slipcase featuring works by Marc Chagall. Minor soiling to the slipcase, tears and loss of small fragments along the spine of the dust jacket and slipcase. Raïssa Maritain (1883–1960) – poet, religious figure, and a close acquaintance of Marc Chagall. Wife of the philosopher and thinker Jacques Maritain. Born in Rostov-on-Don into a Jewish family, she emigrated to France with her parents. She lived in Paris and graduated from the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne (1904). In 1906, she converted to Catholicism. In 1922, together with her husband, she established the Centre for Creative Intellectuals of the Catholic Renaissance at their home in Médon (near Paris). The couple became close friends with Jean Bourgin, who was in a relationship with Jean Cocteau. Raisa’s death on 4 November 1960 had a profound effect on Jean Bourgin. Marc Chagall (1887–1985) – a Russian and French artist of Jewish origin.