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Although stone nudes are everywhere-some crammed
two to a column, supple caryatids,
and others mooning in the Tuileries
the part that makes them women is the last
revelation allowed to art; the male
equipment, less concealable, is seen
since ancient items: a triune bunch of fruit.
Courbet's oil, L'Origine du monde, was owned
by Madame Jacques Lacan and through...