Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

Rue de la mer, Port en Bessin (Normandy)

EC00335

Rue de la mer, Port en Bessin (Normandy)

Date of Work: Circa 1920-1930

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 15x18 1/2

Provenance: Atelier Edouard Cortes; by descent Mme.  Jacqueline Simone, daughter of the artist; with Olivier Coutau Begarie, Paris, November 7, 1997 (expert Nicole Verdier) Lot: 30; David Klein, CA 1997

Notes: "Rue de la mer, Port en Bessin (Normandy)", was painted by Edouard Leon Cortes, circa 1920-1930. The painting is signed lower right, Edouard Cortes. This is a wonderful view down a street toward the sea in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, which is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France. The commune contains the two towns of Port-en-Bessin and Huppain. Note: Included in the Catalogue Raisonné for the Complete Works of Edouard Leon Cortes, Vol. I, Nicole Verdier, expert