A Super Bowl Wager for Art Lovers

by Mary on 01/31/2011 · 0 comments

in Family & Friends

Whoever wins the super bowl, art lovers will be the winners (for a short while at least).

“Carnegie Museum (in Pittsburgh) of Art is betting the latter — Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Bathers with Crab,” painted in the 1890s. It depicts four seaside women, all naked as nymphs and one teasing and about to tickle another with a live crab.

But fear not, lovers of soft-focus, pastel-toned Impressionist works. The museum isn’t betting ownership of the painting, just a three-month loan.

If the Steelers win, Carnegie Museum will be on the receiving end of “Boating on the Yerres,” an 1877 painting by Gustave Caillebotte owned by the Milwaukee Art Museum.”

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