19世纪艺术家的后代要求移除覆盖原作壁画的马克·夏加尔20世纪60年代的画布据报道，1962年，时任法国文化部长安德烈·马尔罗在巴黎歌剧院观看芭蕾舞演出时感到厌倦，他抬头看着古典风格的穹顶，认为需要对其进行改造。
Descendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall’s 1960s canvases that cover original fresco In 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and determined it needed a makeover.
在百无聊赖之际，马尔罗认为当时正坐在他身边的朋友兼艺术家马克·夏加尔是承担这项工作的合适人选，并委托他制作一个新的穹顶。
In his ennui, Malraux decided his friend and artist Marc Chagall, sitting next to him at the Palais Garnier at the time, was the man for the job and commissioned him to make a new ceiling.
