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the artist who organized a private exhibition of realism (because he was rejected from the salon) outside the 1855 paris exposition was .

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Gustave Courbet

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Courbet's career was punctuated by a succession of scandals, which were usually cultivated by the artist and always welcomed. After a public fight with the all-powerful superintendent of fine arts, Comte Nieuwerkerke, several of his works were refused display in the great Salon and Universal Exposition of 1855.

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