Restituted Courbet from Prominent Hungarian Collection Heads to Auction
The Hungarian collector's heirs laid claim to the work.
Gustave Courbet
Courbet’s Most Controversial Paintings: Strange Eroticism, Socialism, and More
By painting explicitly contemporary scenes, the artist disturbed critics.
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‘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.
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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…
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From the Archives: The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law
Ever since antiquity, purified essences have been considered higher than material specifics, the Idea nobler than its concrete manifestations in earthly experience.
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11 New Documentaries to Watch in August 2021
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Soccer Phenom Olivia Moultrie Settles Age-Rule Suit With NWSL
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