By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1920 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family in a typical Breton kitchen scene. An elderly lady is seated at the table with her back to the artist and a young girl also sits at the table beside a bowl of oranges and a carafe of red wine. Another lady stands at the table under the light of the lamp.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 29.5"x34"
Unframed: 21.5"x26"
Provenance:
Salon des Independants - 1922 exhibition
Galleries Maurice Sternberg - Chicago
Original artists label with title and number "9" on the reverse.
Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. 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...
Category
1920s Impressionist Hermann Corrodi Interior Paintings