Marc Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian painter living in Paris, was a friend of Gargallo's, who wanted to portray him here, as a tribute or personal gift with a kind of double symbolism, referring on the one hand to the extraordinary symbiosis existing between the painter and his wife, ideally represented with that female figure that seems to go through Chagall's head - who never stopped thinking about his wife and, therefore, always carried her in his head.