Lot 549
  • 549

Edouard Cortès

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Edouard Cortès
  • L’Arc de Triomphe, vu de l'Avenue Freidland
  • signed Edouard Cortès. (lower right)
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Galerie Léon Gérard, Paris
Mr. William Lawrence Stribling, Georgia (acquired from the above in 1929)
Mrs. W.L. Stribling, Georgia, by 1933
Thence by descent

Condition

Oil on canvas, not lined. Some minor undulation to the canvas, especially in the corners. The surface is in generally good condition aside from surface dirt and dust. There is a pinhole visible at the horizon line between the small store and the car at left. Under UV light, the brown spots at lower left appear to have been added over the varnish. Otherwise, the older varnish fluoresces green. In overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This painting was purchased by the famed boxer W.L. Stribling in 1929 as a gift for his wife. Stribling had traveled to Paris to fight Primo Canera, nicknamed the Ambling Alp and the World Heavyweight Champion of 1933-34.