Paintings

Édouard Léon Cortes (France, 1882-1969) also known as 'the Parisian Poet of Painting', was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish descent. He was known primarily for his Paris cityscapes portrayed in different weather conditions. 

ID#: ART006

Édouard Cortes - 'Café de la Paix, Place de l'Opéra - Oil on Canvas - 33.0 cm x 45.7 cm (13'' x 18'')

Total Frame dimension : 53.3 cm x 71.1 cm (21'' x 28'') 

Signed lower right : 'EDOUARD CORTES'

Provenance confirmed by Christies (David Klein) in 2008

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (Canadian 1846 - 1923).

ID#: ART005

Medium: Oil

Material: Board

Dimensions: 6" x 8.5"

James Edwards Grace - 'Sheep Returning at Dusk'. English (1851-1908).

ID#: ART019

Medium: Oil 

Material: Canvas

Dimensions: 20" x 26"

Jean Jacques Henner’s Red Haired Girl .  Signature in the top right corner.

Materials:  Signed oil on canvas.

Dimensions:  Canvas measuring 7 x 12-1/2 inches in a beautiful vintage gold toned frame 13 x 18 x 2-1/2 inches.

ID#: ART009

“Jean-Jacques Henner (15 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of painting techniques like sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits.

Born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies in art as a pupil of Michel-Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot. In 1848, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel in 1858. In Rome, he was guided byFlandrin, and painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar among other works.

He first exhibited Bather Asleep at the Salon in 1863 and subsequently contributed Chaste Susanna (1865), now in the Musée d’Orsay. Other noted works include: Byblis turned into a Spring (1867); The Magdalene (1878); Portrait of M. Hayem (1878); Christ Entombed (1879); Saint Jerome (1881); Herodias(1887); A Study (1891); Christ in His Shroud and a Portrait of Carolus-Duran (1896); a Portrait of Mlle Fouquier (1897); and The Dream (1900).

The Levite of the Tribe of Ephraim (1898) was awarded a first-class medal. Among other professional distinctions, Henner also took a Grand Prix for painting at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1873, Officer in 1878, and Commander in 1889. In 1889, he succeeded Cabanel in the Institut de France.

Henner died at the age of 76 in Paris.”

Artist biography from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Henner

John D. Lawley (1906-1971) 

'The Cabbie, Remembrance Rd.' - Oil on Panel - 20 cm x 25 cm (8'' x 10'')

Alternate Title : 'From the lookout'

ID#: ART010

Total frame dimensions : 33 cm x 39 cm (13-1/2'' x 15-1/2''), Canvas size : 20 cm x 25 cm (8'' x 10'')

Signed lower right : 'Lawley'

John Geoffrey Caruthers Little's (1928-) ''Rue Plessis towards Logan, Montreal' 1972, signature bottom right

ID#: ART011

Signed Oil on Canvas, 1972

Dimensions: 12'' x 16'' in a vintage wood frame. Frame size : 19'' x 23''

John Little is a Fauvist style Canadian Painter born in 1928. His style was known for preserving Montreal's most beautiful areas on canvas before they were transformed by modernization campaigns.

John Geoffrey Caruthers Little's (1928-) ''Rue Plessis towards Logan, Montreal' 1977, signature bottom right

ID#: ART013

Signed Oil on Canvas, 1977

Dimensions: 16'' x 24'' in a gold coloured contoured vintage wood frame. Frame size : 20'' x 26''

John Little is a Fauvist style Canadian Painter born in 1928. His style was known for preserving Montreal's most beautiful areas on canvas before they were transformed by modernisation campaigns.

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Canadian (1869 - 1937)

ID#: ART017

Medium: Pastel

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 11.5" x 9"