Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Deux Paysannes Pres De L'Escalier, c. 1920-1930

EC00393

Deux Paysannes Pres De L'Escalier

Date of Work: Circa 1920-1930

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 8 1/2x10 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: 87; Roughton Galleries, Dallas

Notes: "Deux Paysannes Pres De L'Escalier" was painted by Edouard Leon Cortes, circa 1920-1930. The painting is signed lower left, Edouard Cortes. This piece is just a gem of an impressionistic painting, two peasant woman in a light filled setting at the steps of a small village house in Brittany. Note: Included in the Catalogue Raisonné for the Complete Works of Edouard Leon Cortes, Vol. I, Nicole Verdier, expert