Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Theartre du Vaudeville, c. 1950-1960

EC00411

Theartre du Vaudeville

Date of Work: Circa 1950-1960

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 13x18

Provenance: Roughton Galleries, Dallas; Private collection Wichita Falls, TX

Notes: "Theartre du Vaudeville", was painted by Edouard Leon Cortes, circa 1950-1960. The painting is signed lower left, Edouard Cortes. The Théâtre du Vaudeville (today the Gaumont Opéra cinema) was a theatre in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles.