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		RcouF1uZ4gsC on Dec 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’, 19th Cent... It seems that the head of the painting may have been found (though this is controversial). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/985... https://archive.is/rGrXL There is speculation that this world is part of a larger complete figure that Corbet painted.

jandrese on Dec 17, 2020 [–]

I am dubious. Origin of the World has such deliberate composition that it's hard to believe that there used to be another whole panel's worth of content up top. It would ruin the piece.

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