Museum Confidential
Museum Confidential
Philbrook Museum of Art
The Secret History of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece
28 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2022 at 3:29 am.
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As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we explore Gustave Courbet’s perennially provocative 1866 work, “L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World)” with artist/writer Lilianne Milgrom, author of “L'Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece.” Milgrom was the first artist authorized by the Musée d’Orsay to re-create Courbet’s scandalous masterpiece.