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Gustave Courbet
The father of Realism, whose frank nudes and radical politics scandalised the establishment. After the 1871 Paris Commune he was imprisoned and held liable for the toppling of the Vendôme Column, dying in exile.
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The Pine Cone vs. the Floating Boulder
A young visitor reportedly carried a pine cone in from the museum garden and accidentally punctured René Magritte's 'The Castle of the Pyrenees', one of Surrealism's most celebrated images.