![]() , featuring works by fine artists such as Julie Bell. The gallery is working on the catalogue raisonné research projects for Daniel Ridgway Knight, Julien Dupré, Emile Munier, and Antoine Blanchard.Īlso located on 5 57th St., in Manhattan, is Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc. Rehs Galleries, along with its principals, is regarded among the world’s top dealers of 19th and early 20th-century European paintings. At age 16, he made his debut at the Paris Salon with Le Labour, which borrows from realist and naturalist painters, as well as his father and his older brother André, best known as a skilled painter of horses. ![]() 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, France, some 20 miles east of Paris, into a family of artists, including his father, Antonio Cortés, a painter for the Spanish Royal Court, Cortès began training as a boy. He would use the name Henri for several years signing his early paintings Henri, Henri Èdouard. His birth certificate recorded the child as Èdouard Leon Cortès, but at the age of six weeks he was baptized Henri Èdouard Cortès. In April, Place de la Republique en Soir (circa 1905), unseen for 114 years, found its way to Rehs Galleries, Inc., in pristine condition, as the most rare Cortès painting on the market, at the time.īorn Aug. Èdouard Leon Cortès was born in Lagny, France on Auginto a family of artists and artisans. Since the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public in 1889, the cabaret at the edge of. Some 500 works by Cortès have passed through Rehs’ hands over the years in his family business, selling more than 75 paintings by the artist over the the last two years alone. Edouard Leon Cortes Moulin Rouge (circa 1957-1958) 15 x 24 inch Oil on canvas. “We sent an email to one of our important collectors and they were sold!" “We did not even have an opportunity to exhibit the works,” said Rehs. When the American buyer, one of the elite gallery’s most revered (and confidential) clients, received the paintings, he proclaimed: “They’re perfect.” All they needed was a light cleaning and new frames." ![]() “Also, knowing that they have not been touched since they were painted, usually ensures that their condition is as close to perfect as possible. “You never know what you will find when you open up an email, and to find these fresh-to-the-market works is an art dealer's dream,” Rehs, director of Rehs Galleries, recalled. By 1957, Cortès began sending paintings to Johnson regularly, including Moulin Rouge and Avenue de l’Opera. 20, 1956, Johnson offered the artist a solo show, which Cortès declined amid a spike in demand for his work. Johnson, of Johnson Galleries, traveled to France and met with Cortès. His later work was executed primarily for the US market where he had an abundance of customers and galleries that clamoured for his paintings of Pairs - these are less refined than his earlier paintings but have equal value to collectors.In 1956, Samuel E. His work spans a number of genres - most notably his views of the city of Paris but perhaps his most sensitive works are those from Normandy and Brittany where he painted extensively - interiors and landscapes and his works from his home in the surroundings of Lagny to the east of Paris. 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. ![]() Cortès was the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. As a lifelong resident of Lagny, he also set up and presided over the Groupe de Lagny. The Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Autumn and Winter Salons, and the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy painting as he went.Ĭortès exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français (of which he became a member in 1907). Although he travelled extensively in France. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. ![]()
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