{"id":411217,"date":"2026-05-04T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:43:08","slug":"the-met-puts-its-chagalls-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411217\/","title":{"rendered":"The Met puts its Chagalls up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>May 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Artsworld sources are reporting that Sothebys have been given the go-ahead to sell two Marc Chagall murals at the Metropolitan Operas, under certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The murals, commissioned for the new Met building in 1966, are valued by Sotheby\u2019s at $55 million.<\/p>\n<p>The sale has not yet been flagged on the Sotheby\u2019s website, where 12 other Chagall works are presently up for auction. The conditions are incontrovertible.<\/p>\n<p>Any prospective buyer will be required to agree to leave the paintings in place during the opera season. A plauqe beside them would declare the donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht May 04, 2026 Artsworld sources are reporting that Sothebys have been given the go-ahead to sell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-411217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}