While artists go in and out of fashion for various reasons, the renewed interest of late in French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) corresponds to a turn in the contemporary art scene toward ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet ... the Woman from the Artist.

the French artist Gustave Courbet. Largely self-taught and extravagantly self-confident, Courbet was barely 30 when he caused an uproar at the Salon of 1850-51 with his 6.6m-long, defiantly dreary ...

A photograph of the painter Gustave Courbet accompanies an exhibit of ... the European art professor. In exile, Courbet established a studio with other artists and painted landscapes similar to the ...

PARIS (AP) — As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: They're ...

For the record: 11:26 a.m. Aug. 5, 2022A previous version of this article incorrectly cited the artist as Phyllis Rose, and that Gustave Courbet’s piece is named “The Origin of the Universe.” ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the ...

Two women Monday sprayed the words "MeToo" on a 19th-century painting of a woman's vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet in a stunt by a performance artist, a museum and the artist said.