[1] 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 ...

His radical personality was so controversial that restauranteurs in Berlin and Paris posted signs saying: "In this club it is forbidden to talk about the paintings of M. Courbet." What were these ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the ...

Police said that the Courbet was protected by a “glass pane ... work called You Don’t Separate the Woman from the Artist. The title is an apparent nod to ongoing debates surrounding whether ...

A champion of the working class, Courbet is known for realistically detailed paintings like “The Stone Breakers,” which shows peasants hammering rocks. “He’s the head figure of a movement called ...

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a rural French village along the border with Switzerland, into a family rising into the bourgeois class of land and business owners. His father pressed ...

The performance artist was charged with property damage and theft after staging an intervention at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in early May. (photo courtesy Deborah de Robertis) Success! Your account ...

When Art Meets Psychoanalysis (until 27 May), which explores the theories of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan who owned the infamous Courbet piece. The Courbet work is on loan to the Centre ...