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Descendents Of Lenepveu Threaten Legal Action Over Paris Opera Ceiling

In 1962, Marc Chagall embarked on a secret commission from the French culture minister, André Malraux: 24 wedge-shaped canvases to be installed on the ceiling of Paris’s Palais Garnier opera house. His canvases covered a fresco painted by the mostly-forgotten 19th century painter, Jules-Eugène Lenepveu. His family is now planning legal action to uncover the […]