Exhibition Facts
Dates
June 9 to September 3, 2001
World Première
The Provincial Museum is the launch site and the only North American venue for this
exhibition.
Curator
Monsieur Noël Coret, Curator and author from Gatien-Bonnet Museum, Lagny,
France.
Number of Paintings
This exhibition showcases 207 original watercolour, gouache, oil and pastel paintings.
Exhibition Design
The design allows visitors to imagine that they are strolling through a Parisian
boulevard alive with flowers and trees while admiring splendid works of art.
Exhibition Themes
The paintings by Ed o u a rd Cortès and his contemporaries are grouped into four themes:
i Paris
i Interiors
i Landscapes
i Creative Influences
Intriguing Hi g h l i g h t s
i Of the original works on display, two are by a master of French Impressionism,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
i Two of the paintings on display by Ed o u a rd Cortès are from the Ed m o n t o n’s
Mc Dougall Collection, which was donated to the Provincial Museum of Alberta in 1989.
Featured Artists
Nineteen artists accompany the Cortès collection in this exhibition:
Albert André (1869 – 1954)
Pierre Montézin (1974 – 1946)
Antoine Blanchard (1919 – 1988)
Fernand Pinal (1881 – 1958)
Antonio Cortès (1827 – 1908)
Paulemile Pissaro (1882 – 1974)
Marcel Dyf (1899 – 1985)
Denis-Henri Ponchon (n.d.)
Jules Hervé (1887 – 1981)
Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
Galien-Laloue (1854 – 1941)
Pierre Sicard (1900 – 1980)
Henri Lebasque (1854 – 1937)
Constant Troyon (1810 – 1865)
Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1828)
Luigi Loir (1845 – 1916)
Léon Lhermitte (1844 – 1925)
Louis Valtat (1869 – 1952)
Maximilien Luce (1858 – 1941)
Exhibition Destination The Gatien-Bonnet Museum in Lagny, France will be the next venue to host the
exhibition, Edouard Cortès (1882 – 1969) Paris and the French Countryside Revealed.
Lagny is the birthplace of Cortès.
Definitions
Impressionism: The French Impressionist style of painting is characterized by the
attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality through the use of unmixed
primary colours