 Even before arriving in the United States in 1941, Chagall was awarded the Carnegie Prize third prize in 1939 for ""Les Fiancés"".After being in America he discovered that he had already achieved "international stature", writes Cogniat, although he felt ill-suited in this new role in a foreign country whose language he could not yet speak.He became a celebrity mostly against his will, feeling lost in the strange surroundings.