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Gustave Courbet

French, 1819–1877

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Iconoclastic and influential Realist painter Gustave Courbet is often regarded as the 19th century’s pioneering artist. Courbet rejected academic traditionalism and bourgeois convention, seeking conflict both artistically and socially with an aim …
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High auction record
$15.3m, Christie's, 2015
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Career highlights
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Solo show at a major institution
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and 1 more
Group
Group show at a major institution
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and 6 more
Institution
Collected by a major institution
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and 2 more
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Reviewed by a major art publication
frieze, and 1 more
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Related categories
Nineteenth Century French Realism
Rural Life
Scenes of Everyday Life
France
Self-Portrait
Gestural
Landscapes
Political
Provocative
Still Life
Work and Workers
Cultural Commentary
Painting
Nude
Focus on the Social Margins
Human Figure
Waterscapes
Individual Portrait
Allegory
Work on Paper
Erotic

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