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.
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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
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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Camilla Wore Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Necklace and the Greville Tiara at a State Banquet in Berlin
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Acronym Teams With Republic of Gamers on Second Collaboration
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s One-of-a-Kind Circular Sun House Lists in Arizona
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MLB’s Minor League CBA Deal May Cool Antitrust Political Heat
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