3rdofmay:

Today on Modern Art Notes: Yesterday the Boston Globe’s Sebastian Smee broke the news that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was hoping to sell eight paintings in order to acquire Gustave Caillebotte’s Man at his Bath (1884, above).

On MAN, I show you seven of the eight paintings the MFAB hopes to sell so that it can buy the Caillebotte, including a Monet, two Sisleys and a Pissarro. Is it a good semi-trade?

I don’t know too terribly much about the paintings involved in the potential switch, but as one commenter on this article mentioned, the MFAB has quite the impressionist collection and it probably won’t hurt.

…although I might be biased since I’m not a fan of impressionism and usually skip the MFAB’s massive impressionist gallery whenever I visit.