Painting I bought today. Anyone know the artist?

[cerb99]

Thanks

[pixzee]

google search imges for > rainy paris oil

Edouard Cortès was a post impressionist who made a carreer of painting rainy Paris streets, and is probably most responcible for the craze in the 1960s for this type of work, often purchased by tourists vistiting France in the 1960s and pumped out by the thousands by various artists and sold in furniture stores in the US as well.

Your canvas has a distinct Starving Artist Sale quality about it. I doubt that the artist is anyone of note.

[pillarboxred]

I think these artists are known collectively as "Place du Tetre" painters, named from the square many of them hung out and painted. In Paris, many "starving artists" of talent did churn out "pot-boiler" tourist work using pseudonyms so they are hard to identify.

[pillarboxred]

Place du Tertre, not Tetre.