Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Place de Clichy, c. 1945-1955

EC00400

Place de Clichy

Date of Work: Circa 1945-1955

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 13x18

Provenance: Private collection, San Antonio; Roughton Galleries, Dallas; Simic Gallery, CA

Notes: "Place de Clichy" was painted by Edouard Leon Cortes. The painting is signed lower right, Edouard Cortes. He Place de Clichy, also known as "Place Clichy", is situated in the northwestern quadrant of Paris. It is formed by the intersection of the Boulevard de Clichy, the Avenue Clichy, the Rue Clichy, the Boulevard des Batignolles, and the Rue d'Amsterdam. It lies at the former site of the barrière de Clichy, an ancient portal in the Wall of the Farmers-General, leading to the village of Clichy, outside the wall.