RAÏSSA MARITAIN (1883-1960) Chagall ou l’orage enchanté [Chagall, or the Enchanted Storm]. Geneva; Paris: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1948.

196, [10] pp.: ill.; 24.5 x 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, was the wife of the philosopher 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 a circle of Catholic Renaissance intellectuals and artists at their home in Meudon (near Paris). The couple became close friends with Jean Bourgoint, who was close to Jean Cocteau. Raïssa’s death on 4 November 1960 had a profound effect on Jean Bourgoint. Marc Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian and French artist of Jewish origin.