Gustave Courbet
Rubik's Cube Mona Lisa fetches 480,000 euros at Paris auction
A Mona Lisa as puzzling as the smile of Leonardo da Vinci's muse -- made out of nearly 300 Rubik's Cubes -- sold for nearly half a million euros at auction in Paris on Feb. 23 evening.
South African artist in Istanbul with 'Stonebreakers'
Istanbul?s BLOK art space is hosting a new exhibition by South African artist Nicky Broekhuysen, ?The Stonebreakers.? The exhibition is a reference to the 1849 realist painting by French artist Gustave Courbet depicting two peasants, a father and a son, laboring on the side of a road breaking rocks.