Thursday, January 4, 2007

courbet's bliss


courbet's bliss
Originally uploaded by gverster_artwork.

Gustave Courbet

"The Origin of the World" [1866] oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

"monsieur courbet, cool as sorbet, had seen fit to image the point of creation as indelicately as a pinned butterfly of colossal proportions..."

from "the origin of the world" by g. verster

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