Last week, Hyperallergic reported on the alleged discovery of the upper half of Gustave Courbet’s x-rated “The Origin of the World” (1866) in Paris. Experts are now casting doubt on the argument that ...
In October 2011, the French kindergarten teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas posted a link on Facebook to an article about Gustave Courbet’s controversial painting “L’Origine du monde” (“The Origin of the ...
The Musée D’Orsay has filed a police complaint following an incident at the Pompidou-Metz on 6 May, in which Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866) was tagged with “Me Too” graffiti. The ...
From blue-chip sell-outs to radical rediscoveries, the 2025 edition proved London is still an art world power stage—even with Paris snapping at its heels. Qatar has revealed that it owns Gustave ...
Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval. Gustave ...