"Les Trois Quartiers, Boulevard de la Madeleine"

EDOUARD CORTES

French, 1882-1969

"Les Trois Quartiers, Boulevard de la Madeleine"

oil on canvas
signed lower right "Edouard Cortes"
15 x 18 1/4 in. (38.1 x 46.4 cm.), Frame: 21 x 2 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (53.3 x 6.4 x 62.2 cm.)

Private Collection, Florida Notes: This lot is accompanied by a photo-certificate by Nicole Verdier, Paris, dated 29 September 2011; this painting is included in "EDOUARD CORTES, catalogue raisonné", vol. III,(March 2023), cat. no. 1453. The building depicted in the left half of the painting is the no longer existing large Parisian department store "Les Trois Quartiers".

Tags: oil painting, listed artist, Paris, street scene, city scene, 20th century

Condition: in good overall condition; unlined canvas; a 1 x 2-inch area of restoration in the roof of the Madeleine; a few other very minor scattered areas of restoration

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