Le Boulevard Raspail, circa 1920-25

EC001230

Le Boulevard Raspail, Paris

Date of Work: Circa 1920-25

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 25x36

Provenance: Freeman Collection, Dallas, TX; Purchased from above Roughton Galleries, Dallas, Texas 1995; McCoy Collection, Dallas, TX 1996; Roughton Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX 2021; purchased from above, Carpenter Collection, CT, 2022

Notes: This wonderful circa 1920's post W.W.I social realist work by French artist Edouard Leon Cortes places the view in the hustle and bustle along the iconic Boulevard Raspail in Paris. It was painted just prior to Cortes' return his Lagny home in 1925. Works from this early period were paramount in enticing collectors worldwide to acquire paintings by Edouard Leon Cortes to adorn their walls alongside other impressionist and post-impressionist.

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