Restituted Courbet from Prominent Hungarian Collection Heads to Auction
The Hungarian collector's heirs laid claim to the work.
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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
Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the Met Breuer, its hotly anticipated annex for modern and contemporary art. Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date…
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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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