In his last year of life he was awarded the prestigious Prix Antoine-Quinson from the Salon de Vincennes. His works were first exhibited in North America in 1945 and he subsequently achieved even greater success. Once, in responding to a journalist who asked if he was a student of Luigi Loir, he replied in pun: "Non, seul élève de moi-même." ("No, a student of myself only.") His first exhibition in 1901 brought him immediate recognition. He died on November 26, 1969, in Lagny, and has a street named in his honour.Īt the age of 17, Edouard began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His wife died in 1918, and the following year he married his sister-in-law, Lucienne Joyeuse.Ĭortès lived a simple life amid a close circle of friends.
Later in life his convictions led him to refuse the Légion d'Honneur from the French Government. After recovery he was reassigned to use his artistic talent to sketch enemy positions. Sent to the front lines, Cortès was wounded by a bayonet, evacuated to a military hospital, and awarded the Croix de Guerre. The depiction of a woman with a child is repeated throughout his work, a possible reference to Joyeuse and Jacqueline.Īlthough Cortès was a pacifist, when war came close to his native village he was compelled to enlist in a French Infantry Regiment at the age of 32.
In 1914 Cortès married Fernande Joyeuse, with whom he had a daughter, Jacqueline Simone, in 1916. His father, Antonio Cortés, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal Court. Cortes was born on August 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris.
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