The same year his father Antonio died at the age of eighty-one which had a significant influence on the artist.Īs the only remaining support of his mother, Cortès focused ever more intensely on establishing a thriving career. Having achieved a certain success, Édouard Cortès started to exhibit his work throughout France in a number of regional salons beginning with the Toulouse International Industrial Salon in 1908. Confident enough of his painting, he organized an auction of his own artworks at the Hôtel Drouot in April 1907. In 1906, the artist exhibited a painting of Le Boulevard de la Madeleine, soir d’automne, an early example of what would become his signature image of a Paris streetscape. Because of his father’s elderly age and Édouard Cortès's status as the only remaining son of the family, he was released from French military service.Īfter participating in the Salon in 1905, Cortès went with his sister Jeanne and her family to Le Tréport, Normandy, where he created a great number of landscapes that became a recurring theme in his paintings. His paintings were included in the annual exhibitions in 1901, 19. Over the next few years, the young painter continued to live with his parents in Lagny and send several paintings each year for consideration by the Salon jury. Everyone spoke of and discussed the young Henri Cortès. The press in Paris awarded this young prodigy status of a legend. His debut helped establish Édouard Cortès' favourable reputation in Paris. The work was well received by the public and numerous critics. This work revealed the influence of his father’s animal paintings. Cortès exhibited his first artwork at the Société des Artistes Français entitled La Labour, of a farmer driving a horse-drawn plough with a god by his side, in April 1899.
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