News Artist Charged for Tagging Courbet’s ‘Origine du Monde’ with #MeToo Five other works, by artists including Valie Export, Louise Bourgeois, and Rosmarie Trockel, were also tagged. By Tessa Solomon Jun 3, 2024 2:54 pm
News Artist and Protesters Tag Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ with the Words ‘Me Too’ The artist who led the protest said she intended to expose the "misogynistic divide" in the art world By Tessa Solomon May 7, 2024 4:54 pm
News Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ Tagged, Stalemate in Mary Miss Land Art Dispute, Gaza Protest at the Met Gala, and More: Morning Links for May 7, 2024 Here's what we're reading this morning. By The Editors of ARTnews May 7, 2024 9:03 am
News Nazi-Looted Courbet Painting Currently in Cambridge Museum Will Be Returned The work's original theft was dated to 1941 by a panel overseeing restitution. By Daniel Cassady Mar 30, 2023 11:34 am
Market Restituted Courbet from Prominent Hungarian Collection Heads to Auction The Hungarian collector's heirs laid claim to the work. By Angelica Villa May 3, 2021 5:03 pm
Artists Courbet’s Most Controversial Paintings: Strange Eroticism, Socialism, and More By painting explicitly contemporary scenes, the artist disturbed critics. By Alex Greenberger Jul 15, 2020 4:01 pm
Retrospective ‘In the Spirit of the Present Day’: The Met Gets Modern With a Major Donation of 19th-Century Painting, in 1930 In honor of the Met opening its new annex, we turn back to 1930, when the museum received a major donation of 19th-century painting. By The Editors of ARTnews Mar 18, 2016 11:55 am
News It All Leads Back to Duchamp Francis Naumann and 'The Visible Vagina'. By Amanda Gordon Jan 1, 2010 12:00 am
News The Mysterious Journey of an Erotic Masterpiece Femme nue couchée, one of several Courbets owned by the Hungarian Jewish collector Baron Ferenc Hatvany, disappeared after World War II from a Budapest bank vault. The painting resurfaced 50 years… By Konstantin Akinsha Feb 1, 2008 12:00 am