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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1990                   TAG: 9003232521
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/4   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short

BIG REWARD OFFERED IN ART THEFT

Two international auction houses agreed to underwrite a $1 million reward - no questions asked - in the theft of a dozen uninsured art treasures from the Gardner Museum.

Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses are underwriting the reward by using their own money and by soliciting funds from art supporters worldwide, museum Director Anne Hawley said.

The loss was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

-Associated Press 


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