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 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 ...

After 175 years, Gustave Courbet’s slow procession of mourners still stirs even the hardened modern heart. Most obviously, this is because it unflinchingly confronts mankind’s eternal subject and does ...

Gustave Courbet was already an art star but still itching for greater renown when he took matters into his own bold hands in 1855. Dissatisfied with the works representing him in the official Salon, ...

Gustave Courbet’s infamous “The Origin of the World,” an intimate portrait of a female model’s nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking, though, ...

The pale, wide-eyed young man tearing at his hair has been everywhere since the juicy Gustave Courbet retrospective opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the end of February. 1 He lunges at us, ...

A panel has recommended that a British museum return a landscape painting by Gustave Courbet to heirs of a Jewish engineer who joined the French Resistance. By Julia Jacobs Shortly before the Nazi ...

For decades, art lovers believed the painting was lost, maybe even destroyed, a casualty of Red Army or Nazi looting in Hungary during World War II. But unlike so many other tales of plundered ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...