It's been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde" (1866) on Facebook, returned to the ...

"The Origin of the World" was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Experts are now "99 percent" certain that the genitalia ...

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 ...

A statue of French painter Gustave Courbet by Louis-Joseph Leboeuf is displayed at the Leopold Museum in Vienna during the opening of the first solo exhibition dedicated to Courbet. Photo: AFP One of ...

200 years after his birth, few artists have done so much to change the course of history as Courbet. MutualArt takes a forensic look at perhaps his most radical painting It’s no overstatement to say ...