LSAT 102 – Section 4 – Question 10

LSAT 102 - Section 4 - Question 10

June 1998

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PT102 S4 Q10
+LR
Weaken +Weak
Net Effect +NetEff
A
7%
160
B
92%
166
C
0%
161
D
0%
140
E
1%
154
128
139
149
 +Easier 146.127 +SubsectionMedium

The Board of Trustees of the Federici Art Museum has decided to sell some works from its collection in order to raise the funds necessary to refurbish its galleries. Although this may seem like a drastic remedy, the curator has long maintained that among the paintings that the late Ms. Federici collected for the museum were several unsuccessful immature works by Renoir and Cézanne that should be sold because they are of inferior quality and so add nothing to the overall quality of the museum’s collection. Hence, the board’s action will not detract from the quality of the museum’s collection.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the board’s decision to sell some works will not detract from the quality of the museum’s collection.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the curator is correct about the quality of the works and how they contribute to the museum’s overall quality. This means that the author is taking the curator as an authority on the issues, and thus appealing to authority in order to draw his conclusion. The author, following the curator, assumes that works of inferior quality can’t contribute to the overall quality of a museum.

A
The directors of an art museum can generally raise funds for refurbishing the building in which the museum’s collection is housed by means other than selling part of its collection.
Whether or not the art museum could’ve raised funds some other way is irrelevant. We need to weaken the argument—that these paintings are of inferior quality and can therefore be sold.
B
The quality of an art collection is determined not just by the quality of its paintings, but by what its collection demonstrates about the development of the artistic talent and ideas of the artists represented.
While these immature works are not high-quality, they represent integral stages in Renoir and Cézanne’s artistic development. The quality of the paintings might be mitigated by their importance to the collection as a whole, meaning the gallery has a reason not to sell them.
C
The immature works by Renoir and Cézanne that were purchased by Ms. Federici were at that time thought by some critics to be unimportant juvenile works.
It doesn’t matter what critics thought at the time these paintings were purchased. We need to know whether or not their quality means the gallery should sell them today.
D
Those people who speculate in art by purchasing artworks merely to sell them at much higher prices welcome inflation in the art market, but curators of art museums regret the inflation in the art market.
This is irrelevant. We don’t care what curators think about inflation.
E
The best work of a great artist demands much higher prices in the art market than the worst work of that same artist.
We don’t care how much money the gallery will get for these works. We need to know if their quality means the gallery should sell them.

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