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. The greatest impression on the young artist was made by Sir Arnesby Brown.Édouard Leon Cortès is widely known for his Impressionistic renderings of Parisian promenades and rustic French hamlets. In the 1920’s he began experimenting in wood cuts and etchings but he was mainly an East Anglian landscape painter in oil, acknowledging Constable as an influence. His work was also exhibited by the “Royal Society of British Arts” and the “Royal Cambrian Academy”. The year before he had the first of several Royal Academy hangings (1928-1948). When Wilfred Pettitt married in 1929, he and his wife, Bessie, settled at 38 Earlham Green Lane, Norwich. This developed into the firm known as “Pettitts Ltd of Reedham” and was run by the family more recently, having new owners, it is now called “Pettitts Animal Adventure Park”. When his father’s art shop in Great Yarmouth floundered during the First World War the family moved to a small holding in Reedham. Wilfred Stanley Pettitt was born in Great Yarmouth in 1904, the fourth child in a family of eight he studied at the Great Yarmouth School of Art and Norwich School of Art. On 1stDibs, find a collection of original Édouard Leon Cortès paintings. 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 When asked about his depictions of horse-drawn carriages in the streets of Paris as well as outdated fashions - dresses and other garments that bore the hallmarks of pre-1930s fashion design, for example - he cited a fantasy he had about being able to “stop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. ![]() Édouard Leon Cortès is widely known for his Impressionistic renderings of Parisian promenades and rustic French hamlets. 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. 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.Įdouard 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. This work is accompanied by a photo certificate from Mme Verdier numbered EC214023/HP&t/CBE-207.Įdouard Léon Cortès, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. ![]() This work will be included in Tome II of the catalgue raisonne which is in preparation by Mme Nicole Verdier. There are rolling fields below the blue sky in the distance. Beyond the trees the pink light of the sun reflects off the buildings of the hamlet. The piece in a wonderful depiction of a warm and sunny spring day, the trees in the green meadow to the foreground are covered in white blossom. About A stunning oil on board landscape by sought after French Impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes.
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