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Boston Museum of Fine Arts Believed to Be Eyeing Coveted Degas.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003

By Geoff Edgers, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 30--When the Museum of Fine Arts announced Friday it would sell a pair of Degas paintings, art specialists were quick to praise the museum. If curator George Shackelford, known for his work on Degas, gave his thumbs up, the unnamed masterpiece the MFA said it would purchase with the $12.7 million to $17.1 million raised through the auction had to be worthy of the sale.

Now, art world specialists say they know what the MFA wants: Degas's "The Duchessa di Montejasi and Her Two Daughters."

Painted in 1876, it was last seen in the United States at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1989. It is owned by the Citroen family in Paris, but the painting apparently has...

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