Oil on canvas painting signed by Edouard Cortès and titled ‘Pays Avec Le Mouton,’ 13 by 18in. When asked why, he said he wanted to halt history at 1939, before the trauma of World War II changed Paris forever. His style changed little along the way in the 1950s he was still showing horse-drawn carriages and styles of clothing that had long vanished from the real streets of Paris. Later, he became renowned as “Le Poete Parisien de la Painture” (or, “The Parisian Poet of Painting”) because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a wide variety of weather and night settings. A splash of purple may be a man’s tailored dinner jacket or a stroke of blue a woman’s cloak.Ĭortès was enthralled by the north French countryside and produced many landscapes during his prolific career, most of them early on. On his canvases one could find an array of tones ranging from soft gray hues and ambers to vivid reds, yellows and oranges. The viewer’s eye was often caught by fascinating details: the play of lights on wet pavement, shadows on streets and glowing windows and lamps. Abell Auction and LiveAuctioneers imageĬortès paintings captured the essence of old Paris through bold brush strokes and intriguing colors. Provenance: Wally Findlay Gallery, with tag and label verso 13½ x 18½in. Painting by Edouard Cortès titled ‘Madeleine,’ signed lower right. In 1901, while still in his teens, Cortès exhibited his work at the prestigious Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris. There, he studied the various forms of classical and impressionistic painting. Edouard learned the basic disciplines of landscape painting from his father and at age 17 he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. If Cortès’ name doesn’t sound French, it’s because his father, Antonio Cortès, was a painter for the Spanish Royal Court. He’s most known for his Paris cityscapes. Cortès split his time between Paris and Lagny-sur-Marne, France, where he was born and where he died. NEW YORK – Few artists have been able to capture the romance, energy and charm of old Paris as nimbly as Edouard Léon Cortès (1882-1968), the French post-impressionist painter who dedicated most of his life to seizing the magic of Paris during its transition from the romantic “belle epoque” to the modern, 20th century capital city it is today. Oil on canvas street scene by Edouard Cortès, depicting an early 20th century view of pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and streetcars along the Quai du Louvre in Paris, signed lower right, housed in the original carved giltwood frame measuring 20 x 25in.
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