![]() ![]() Wally Findlay Galleries - Chicago 1969 (copy of original bill of sale included with the painting) The bright colours of the flowers and the red awnings contrast beautifully against the grey of the city building. The work depicts figures in the flower market at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, France. ![]() On 1stDibs, find a collection of original Édouard Leon Cortès paintings.Signed impressionist oil on canvas cityscape circa 1960 by French painter Edouard Leon Cortes. Ten years after his death in 1969, the city of Lagny - where Cortès had spent most of his life - named a street in his honor. Cortès was prolific - he painted the streets of Paris and its well-known landmarks as well as majestic landscapes, interiors, boats and scenes that unfolded at Parisian harbors. He remarked that his oil paintings, pastels and watercolors should speak for themselves. When asked about his depictions of horse-drawn carriages in the streets of Paris as well as outdated fashions - dresses and other garments that bore the hallmarks of pre-1930s fashion design, for example - he cited a fantasy he had about being able to “stop time” so that the Second World War wouldn’t have taken place.Ī humble man, Cortès refused interviews and preferred anonymity. ![]() Later, during World War II, Cortès and his family spent time in Normandy to escape the horrors of the conflict. When he was able to return to his easel, Cortès desired solely to paint peaceful scenes of France’s capital city. The artist spent time sketching enemy positions on the front lines, and this may have deepened his anti-war resolve. Cortès went on to study at École des Beaux-Arts.Īs World War I gained steam, Cortès willingly joined the French military effort even though he was a pacifist. He found success among art critics as well as the public and earned renown in France. The son and pupil of Spanish painter Antonio Cortès, his influences included Barbizon painters Constant Troyon and Henri Harpignies.Įstablishing a name for himself early on in his long career, Cortès first exhibited a painting he called La Labour at the Société des Artistes Français when he was still in his late teens. Édouard Leon Cortès is widely known for his Impressionistic renderings of Parisian promenades and rustic French hamlets. What can be said with some degree of certainty, however, is that Edouard Leon Cortès was an accomplished heir of Impressionism, notably in terms of his ability to render the effects of changing light and the passage of the seasons Edouard Cortes Paintings For Sale. It is also a fact that, on the evidence of public auctions between 19 and, above all, after 1924, the vast majority of paintings by Edouard Léon Cortès are cityscapes of Paris (a subject that would appear as inexhaustible as it is commercially viable). When Edouard Leon Cortès' paintings first went on sale in 1919-1921 (and even much later, on 25 September 1968 in Nice), they included Breton interiors and, above all, landscapes with figures and animals (often in pairs or pendants) that are distinctly at odds with the bulk of his output and, moreover, are decidedly more like the work of André Cortès. Little is known about Cortès private life and there may even be some grounds for suspicion that paintings attributed to him could be the work of André and/or Antonio Cortès. Cortès was the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including nomination in 1929 to the rank of Officier de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts, the award of the Croix d'Honneur as a Chevalier de l'Education Sociale (1931), and elevation to the rank of Chevalier of the Order des Arts et des Lettres. As a lifelong resident of Lagny, he also set up and presided over the Groupe de Lagny. Edouard Cortès exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français (of which he became a member in 1907), the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Autumn and Winter Salons, and the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. ![]() In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi, although he travelled extensively in France, notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy, painting as he went. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Nicole Verdier and will be included in the forthcoming update to the artist's Catalogue Raisonne.Įdouard Cortes Paintings For Sale Edouard Léon Cortès, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sourced if required. About Oil on canvas by French Impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes depicting figures in a snowy cityscape at nighttime. ![]()
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