His first wife and the great love of his life , Bella Rosenfeld , floats in the upper - left as a ghostly apparition dressed in bridal white .
The lovers in the painting are Chagall and his second wife Valentina Brodsky .
Chagall 's first wife and the great love of his life , Bella Rosenfeld , floats in the upper - left as a ghostly apparition dressed in bridal white .
The lovers in the painting are Chagall and his second wife Valentina Brodsky .