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Édouard Cortès exhibited several artworks based on his military sketches, and the following year, he presented only one gouache at the annual Salon of the Société des Artists Français. In the spring of 1919, Cortès took part in a special exhibition sponsored jointly by the Sociéte National des Beaux-Arts and the Sociéte des Artists Français to aid in war repairs. The artist was demobilized and returned to Paris in 1919. His drawing skills meant that he often moved from one regiment to another in order to visually record military information. When he eventually recovered, he was assigned to a staff position, where his artistic talents proved priceless in sketching enemy positions. Having a bayonet wound, Édouard Cortès was evacuated to a military hospital. He was sent to the front lines as a contract agent. In 1914 Cortés enlisted in the Army to fight the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). In 1911 Édouard Cortès had an exhibition at the annual Paris Salon, which was followed by a show at the Union Artistique des Ardennes the Société des Amis des Arts de l’Avallonnais the Société Artistique de Charenton and the Société des Artists Girondins at the Autumn Salon in Bordeaux.Ĭortès spent part of the summer of 1913 in Loquirec. He also managed to buy property at 22 rue Macheret in Lagny as a home for himself and his mother. His Salon artwork received coverage in seventeen articles in a variety of publications in 1910. Increasingly, his work attracted critical attention from the press.

Édouard Cortès continued to exhibit his paintings at the Paris Salon and to examine other possibilities for exhibitions. 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.