The Deborah de Robertis Affair Divides the Art World
By Roxana Azimi
May 29, 2014. Deborah de Robertis, half-naked, spreads her thighs under The Origin of the World (1866), the extremely famous painting by Gustave Courbet, at the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, to denounce the place of women in the art world. The Franco-Luxembourgish artist then gets away with a reminder of the law after a few hours in police custody.
