Gustave Courbet’s most (in)famous work, The Origin of the World (1866)—a full frontal painting of a vulva—was not publicly shown until 1988 and can still scandalise audiences. But there was more to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Larry Mantle talks with Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman, curators of the Getty Museum’s new Gustave Courbet exhibit which runs through May 14th. The Museum is presenting 46 landscape paintings by ...

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 ...

Gustav Courbet's "La Source du Lison" (1864) was found in a basement at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. (image courtesy University of Pennsylvania) For at least 50 years, a ...

"[They] call me ‘the socialist painter.' I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a Republican as well--in a word, a partisan of all the revolution and above all ...