ÉDOUARD HENRI LEON CORTES | Porte St. Martin
Oil on Canvas
46 x 61 cms / 18 x 24 inches
Over the course of around 60 years, Cortès captured the spirit of Paris in all weathers and by night, earning him the title ‘Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture’. His evocative street scenes depict bustling boulevards, carriages, and hurried figures beneath glowing gas lamps.
For most of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Paris was a bustling city at the heart of the art world, a thriving metropolis teeming with ideas and innovation that drew collectors and artists from all corners of the globe.
The celebrated French painter Edouard Cortès became the city’s lyrical recorder, capturing the delicate intonations of its light, the vicissitudes of its weather, the passing of the seasons, its market stalls, tramcars and crowded streets with Impressionistic delicacy.
“As long as I am able to get up and go to my easel,” Cortès said, “I will paint until my last breath, because I was born from and for painting.” He was, indeed, a prolific painter who found, in the many visitors to the city, a huge demand for his work.
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