Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Broderie Dans Un Interieur Breton, c. 1910-1920

EC00384

Broderie Dans Un Interieur Breton

Date of Work: Circa 1910-1920

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 13x19 1/2

Provenance: Sold: Atelier Edouard Cortes; by descent Mme.  Jacqueline Simone, daughter of the artist; with Olivier Coutau Begarie, Paris, November 7, 1997 (expert Nicole Verdier) Lot: 79

Notes: "Broderie Dans Un Interieur Breton", was painted by Edouard Leon Cortes, circa 1910-1920. The painting is signed lower right, Edouard Cortes. This is not the typical French street scene that everyone identifies as a Cortes. It is much more. These early interior scenes capture and preserve how life in Brittany was at the turn of the century. Note: Included in the Catalogue Raisonné for the Complete Works of Edouard Leon Cortes, Vol. I, Nicole Verdier, expert