In a letter dated August 20, 1956, Johnson offered the artist a solo show however, he was forced to decline the offer due to other commitments. Johnson (Johnson Galleries, Chicago), traveled to France and met with Cortes. By the 1920s the artist's works achieved international recognition and were included in group, and solo shows throughout the world, with his first international solo show in 1928 at The T.

Throughout his career, Cortes participated in numerous Paris Salon exhibitions, as well as exhibitions in Lagny, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Dijon, Le Havre, Douai, Troyes, Calais, Caen, and Nevers. Young Cortès did, of course, attend a good school: we all know what a talented artist his father is.' The newspaper Le Matin commented that Cortès was 'A little chap, only so high, who by rights should still be wearing out the seat of his trousers on his school bench, but who, nonetheless, with his light touch, has already entered canvasses for the Salon…' Over the next few years, the young painter continued to study with his father, living with his parents in Lagny and sending several paintings each year for consideration by the Salon jury. Le Figaro proclaimed: 'His style and his color have greatly impressed the jury. The work's acceptance by the Salon jury signaled that the artist showed great promise. In 1899, at the age of 16, he made his debut at the Paris Salon with Le Labour, a painting which clearly owed a debt to both Realist and Naturalist painters as well as his father and brother.

Born in Lagny, France, on August 6th, 1882, into a family of artists, Edouard followed the family tradition and started training with his father at an early age.

Edouard leon cortes paintings