Top Finds: 1959 Édouard Cortès Oil Painting 

I’d pay 50 thousand for that if I had it.

The thing that really strikes me is the highlights in the windows. So much contrast

@@tbrowniscool what caught my eye was that street light on the left.

@@Briggie I agree its so amazing

I would love even a print of that picture.

Agree 100%. I will make note of this painter. I love the starry night of van gogh. His style and technique brings the picture into som sort of a live image. I feel the same with this one. Obviously an original van gogh are not an option. But this Cortes might be. Just wonderful :)

I was told he was an inspiration for Kinkaide.

@ekimshield I've studied Kinkade’s work from when he was a teenager. He had the chops. Like him or not (I like him, too), he did what no artist has done since Leonardo. The book, ”Billion Dollar Painter” is remarkable. It's heartbreaking how things turned out, but it doesn't negate what he accomplished.

The muted colours around the lights and overall mute colours of the piece, makes the lights look so realistic

When you blur your eyes viewing it.

Cold and wet?

Joshua B virgin

Yes, i felt a strange feeling while looking at this art piece and im not into paintings. I felt... somewhat of a melancholy with awe, and a touch of homey-ness.

Crazy, me too.

I didn't get cold looking at this, I just got really really wet. And I'm a guy

Mud Sh-sh-shark agreed, a lovely scene with an engaging style makes for a good painting

It's a rare case where it's valuable but actually a nice painting. :D

me too. just really great paint. not some pseudo art common these days

@@ariochiv There's a decent sized art department at the college in my town and it only seems to produce complete rubbish. I see nothing come out of it that elevates and beautifies the human experience. "Hey, I'll paint these burlap sacks pink, fill them with sand, and tie them together. Art!" "Congratulations, you now have a masters degree." "Great, where do I get my 6 figure job?"

@@BudSchnelker To be fair, no one or almost no one is getting a 6 figure job with an MFA degree in fine art

It really is a quite lovely painting.

If I won the lottery that's all I would do is research and buy paintings

now the next time you feel like laughing at the price of a piece you can picture other people feeling what you're feeling about this one

@@voltcorp Yes. Bless you for saying this. Especially directed toward those who can't relate to a JMB painting. Just because you can't relate doesn't invalidate.

I did quick search on Google, and apparently there are tons of painting of Theatre du Châtelet by this artist and others. It was very popular subejct for painting, I guess.

TY for the info...I have a pet hobby of locating painting scenes in modern day Google Street Maps... fotos but need the address or place name. So thank you for the help.

how is that even possible? obviously her grandparents bought the painting when it was not famous, and it stayed in her family all these years. Unless the artist made a duplicate painting all those years ago.

I just did a quick search on Google, and apparently he painted tons of the same subject from same view point with little variations.

I am a great fan of cortez,how on earth do you make the lights look so real on the paintings

should've gone up to her after she smashes it on the floor and said "that vase was worth 1 million pounds, what a shame you've destroyed it." lol

If you shlepped some vase to this roadshow, you are hoping it is worth a lot, so why take it out of the bag with one hand?

Thank to her titties, all is well.

@@Neildo430ci And they also helped her catch that vase.

@@kevinmartin2961 that's what he was saying...

Completely agree. That's a painting I would buy.

I think the popular prints you've seen are of another piece on the same subject called 'Théâtre du Châtelet (EC00852). The painting in this clip is listed in the artist's Catalogue Raisonneé as titled 'Place du Châtelet' (EC00465), painted around 3 years later, although obviously from the same source when you compare the two paintings.

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Yes, it happens....... my aunt and uncle had a painting hanging in their home for almost 60 years, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that they purchased in 1958 during a trip to Europe. They passed away, and my cousins had an estate sale. A painting of a Spanish looking man was among the items to be sold. I do believe that my family knew it was Jesus because we are Catholic and the hand is up in a fashion of giving a blessing. Well, some men had been looking for this painting for quite some time and when they noticed it in a brochure that the New Orleans auction house had made for this sale, they came to the auction and purchased it for about 2,000. (My aunt and uncle purchased it for about $120 American dollars). Well , the new owner sold it with the help of, I think, sotheby's auction house, and made a whopping 120 million!!!! In this story, as I read online when trying to figure this out, I do not understand if it was this man that bought it from my cousins, or if it was the person that paid 120 million, who had it restored. Anyway, one of the new owners brought it to a lady who took about 5 or 6 years to restore it. The mustache and beard were removed due to not being original and a few other things. So, here is the big clincher......!!!!!......!!!!!!...... this painting is the Salvatore Mundi, (Savior of the World) by Leonardo Di Vinci. !!!!!!!! What?!?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!?! So, the person who bought it for the millions, sold it after the restoration with another auction house, and a Saudi Prince bought it for 450 million dollars!!!!!!!!! So, this , of course, made the local news in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and when it came to light what this painting was, my cousins were shocked, to say the least, and said they wish they had known, and that they hadn't have sold it. They too would have had it restored and put in a museum, but would have retained ownership. Wow!!!!! We are pretty sure that my aunt and uncle did not know that it was painted by Di Vinci. It may have been pawned off as being by one of his students. Or, perhaps it was just somehow lost over time and was sold as a "copy" or something . Some people on the different comment threads say it is a fake and that it still isn't real, but when you listen to how the professionals describe every technique, etc, I think it is real...