May 29, 2014: Deborah de Robertis, half-naked, spread her legs beneath Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde ("The Origin of the World," 1866) at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, to denounce the place of ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Two women were charged in France on Tuesday over the spraying of the words 'MeToo' on five artworks including a famous 19th-century painting of a woman's vulva, a prosecutor said. French-Luxembourgish ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the work with ...