MFA to sell 8 paintings for 1 "gay" Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte's Man at His Bath (1884)News broke today that the MFA will de-accession some eight works (including a Monet, Degas, and Gauguin) to purchase Man at his Bath, by Gustave Caillebotte (at left), for a price of around $17 million.I suppose the purchase will be controversial (the Monet that's being sold is a nice one, although the MFA has another much like it) - partly, I think, because the Caillebotte…