Edouard Cortès Auction Prices and Value Guide

Edouard Cortès auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,612 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Artist
Edouard Cortès
Source records
1,612
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Edouard Cortès

Édouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French painter celebrated for his luminous Paris street scenes, which earned him the nickname "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture." Born in Lagny-sur-Marne to the Spanish-born painter Antonio Cortès, he grew up in an artistic household and first exhibited at the Paris Salon at the age of sixteen. Over a career spanning roughly seventy years, Cortès depicted the boulevards, monuments, and neighborhoods of Paris across every season, time of day, and weather condition — from rain-slicked evening avenues to snow-dusted morning markets. Though broadly associated with Post-Impressionism, his style is distinctive for its rich impasto, vibrant palette, and atmospheric treatment of light, which collectors continue to prize.

Post-ImpressionismOil on canvasGouacheParis cityscapes and street scenesAtmospheric weather and night settings

Common works and media

The majority of Cortès works encountered at auction are oil paintings on canvas or panel, depicting Parisian street and boulevard scenes. Common subjects include views of Notre-Dame, the Madeleine, the Opéra, the Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde, and the Quai de la Seine. He also painted riverside scenes, market squares, and village views around Lagny-sur-Marne. Gouaches and smaller works on board surface less frequently but are known. Cortès typically signed his work with variant forms of his name, including 'Cortès,' 'H. Cortes,' and 'Edouard-Léon Cortès.'

Market and appraisal context

Édouard Cortès maintains a liquid and well-documented secondary market. Appraisily auction records index 73 lots spanning 2007 to late 2025, with 52 carrying realized prices. The recorded price distribution ranges from approximately $4,750 at the low end to $59,100 at the high end, with a median near $18,750 and an interquartile spread of $13,750–$30,000. His work is traded predominantly at top-tier houses — Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonhams — supplemented by a strong international roster including Van Ham Kunstauktionen (Germany), Waddington's (Canada), Artcurial (France), Morton Subastas (Mexico), Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden, Dallas Auction Gallery, Neal Auction Company, and A.B. Levy's Palm Beach. The last twelve months saw four priced results (Artcurial at €30,000, Waddington's at CAD 37,250 and CAD 44,450, Van Ham at €15,000), compared with two in the prior twelve-month window, suggesting stable-to-improving liquidity. Night scenes and rain-slicked Paris landmarks (Madeleine, Opéra, Place Vendôme, Seine quays) command the strongest prices, with Sotheby's results for individually catalogued landmark views clustering between $20,000–$34,000 USD. Smaller or less compositionally complex works trade below $10,000. Four Bonhams lots and several others were withdrawn between 2020 and 2022, and one Brunk Auctions lot was explicitly catalogued as 'Follower of Edouard Cortès,' underscoring the attribution risk that accompanies his popularity.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Oil on canvas
  • Gouache
  • Oil on panel

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • Cortès was prolific over a seven-decade career and produced a very large body of work, which keeps auction supply high and creates a wide price range
  • The official artist site (edouardcortes.org) listed in Wikidata is no longer resolving, limiting access to any centralized catalogue raisonné or authentication resource
  • No museum collection highlights or catalogue raisonné reference appeared in the source pack; market appraisals should account for limited institutional scholarship
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Evidence

Sources for artist context

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Data basis

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