US EditionNotorious Courbet painting goes on show in Vienna
The exhibition includes 128 works and features rarely loaned pieces like 'The Origin of the World,' highlighting Courbet's influence on modern artists such as Yan Pei-Ming.
- On Thursday, the Leopold Museum in Vienna opens a Courbet retrospective featuring 'The Origin of the World' lent from Paris's Musee d'Orsay, running until June 27.
- Assembled with international and private loans, the exhibition includes works originally bought by Khalil Sherif Pasha and passed through several private collectors.
- Featuring 128 different works, the retrospective includes paintings, sculptures and drawings and contrasts Courbet’s work with contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming.
- Notably, officials said this was only the fourth overseas loan of the painting, which was first publicly shown in 1955 and has had only recent public showings.
- Positioning Courbet's late period, exhibition notes state that the work was made for the private sphere amid debates over public display of explicit art, with Wipplinger saying `We show for the first time Courbet's last four years`.
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Vienna, Austria. One of Gustave Courbet's most controversial nudes, The Origin of the World, which depicts a woman's vulva in close-up as she lies on a bed, will be the centerpiece of a retrospective of the 19th-century French painter opening Thursday in Vienna. The Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where it is normally on display, has loaned the 1866 canvas to the Leopold Museum in Vienna for the retrospective, which runs until June 27. According to Hans…
Finally she is here, the great retrospective on Gustave Courbet, the artist's original type as a rebel. Vienna had to wait 150 years for her. The Leopold Museum generously compensates us for this with almost 90 paintings, including major works such as "L'Origine du Monde" and "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet".
This 1866 painting of a nude showing a woman's vulva and breasts is kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
A comprehensive retrospective at the Leopold Museum presents France's most important painter of the 19th century.
It is undoubtedly a highlight of the art year 2026: for the first time and comprehensively, the Vienna Leopold Museum brings the French realist Gustave Courbet to Austria – including his famous, scandalous painting "The Origin of the World". The retrospective shows the entire Courbet: between provocationism, self-marketing and revolutionary painting.
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