MFA's Monets: dicey deal? - 2004-01-24
Past the slot machines and the blackjack tables, there they'll be: 21 Monet masterworks, including the hypnotic 1905 painting, "Water Lilies," right in the center of the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas -- courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
In return for a payment of at least $1 million, the MFA has agreed to lend more than half of its Monet collection to a for-profit, Las Vegas gallery housed in the resplendent casino for a show opening this week.
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