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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/9854914/Ama
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
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/9854914/Amateur-art-buff-finds-35-million-head-of-Courbet-masterpiece.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/985...
https://archive.is/rGrXL https://archive.is/rGrXL
There is speculation that this world is part of a larger complete figure that Corbet painted.
- jandrese 6y agoI 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.