EDOUARD LÉON CORTES (1882-1969) BOULEVARD VOLTAIRE, TWILIGHT EFFECT, CIRCA 1925 Gouache on paper mounted on canvas Signed lower right Gouache on paper laid on canvas; signed lower right 38,5 X 55 CM - 15 1/8 x 21 5/8 IN. Madame Nicole Verdier has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplement to Édouard Cortes' Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Volume III, currently in preparation. A certificate dated January 2024 will be given to the buyer. "Cortes, who with his bold brush brings to life on a small square of canvas the thousand lights and thousand reflections of our old Paris". L'information, February 11, 1928, quoted in Nicole Verdier, Édouard Cortès Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Vol. I, Éditions Contexte, Paris: 2002, p. 88.