- Daughter Ida born 1916.
- Became friends with musician Jon Anderson in the 1980s. Jon composed a double album about Chagall's life and artwork. The album is yet to be released.
- Father of composer, actor and director David McNeil.
- Chagall's painting, "La Mariee", is given to Hugh Grant as a present by Julia Roberts in Notting Hill (1999). It was also obliquely referenced by Steve Martin in Roxanne (1987), when he compares himself to the "blue man" in the balcony scene.
- Distant cousin of Rachel Chagall.
- A 1928 Chagall oil painting, Les Amoureux, measuring 117.3 x 90.5 cm, depicting Bella Rosenfeld, the artist's first wife and adopted home Paris, sold for $28.5 million (with fees) at Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2017, almost doubling Chagall's 27-year-old $14.85 million auction record.
- In 1960, Brandeis University awarded Marc Chagall an honorary degree in Laws, at its 9th Commencement.
- In 2013, previously unknown works by Chagall were discovered in the stash of artworks hidden away by the son of one of Hitler's art dealers, Hildebrand Gurlitt.
- He became in 1974 'Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium'.
- Chagall also designed tapestries which were woven under the direction of Yvette Cauquil-Prince, who also collaborated with Picasso. These tapestries are much rarer than his paintings, with only 40 of them ever reaching the commercial market.
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