“The Origin of the World” was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. As part of a performance by Deborah de Robertis at the Centre ...

The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin ...

A top French museum has filed a police complaint after two women spray-painted a famous 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet which it had loaned to another gallery, official said Friday. The women ...

The women, born in 1986 and 1993, were arrested on Monday afternoon after targeting "The Origin of the World", a nude painted by French artist Gustave Courbet. The 1866 artwork on display at the ...

Of all the jaw-dropping paintings in “Gustave Courbet,” the landmark survey of the great French artist now at the Metropolitan Museum, the jaw drops furthest for one that was painted in 1866, for a ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

The Yale University Art Gallery has received an ownership claim regarding an 1864 painting by Gustave Courbet on loan to the Art Gallery since 1981. The claim was made by the son of the late Josephine ...

The Musée du Vieux Granville in Normandy, France has authenticated a work by Realist master Gustave Courbet that has been languishing in its archives since 1945. Vue du Lac Léman (1876), as well as ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...

A "lost" Gustave Courbet painting, once believed to be a fake, has been authenticated by a French museum, artnet News reports. Called Vue du Lac Léman (1876), the 19th century Realist painter’s ...