Assouan - Les Rochers

Details

Mahmoud Saïd (Egyptian, 1897-1964)
Assouan - Les Rochers
signed and dated 'M.SAÏD 1949' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
11¾ x 15¾in. (30 x 40cm.)
Painted in 1949

Provenance

Sir Gilbert Inglefield, British Council, Cairo (by whom acquired directly from the artist in the late 1940s/early 1950s). Thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

E. Dawastashy, Mahmoud Saïd, (in Arabic), Cairo 1997, no. 209 (listed, but not illustrated).

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Further details

This work will be included in the forthcoming Mahmoud Saïd Catalogue raisonné, prepared by Dr. Hussam Rashwan and Valérie Hess

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Lot Essay

'I write to ask if you would do us the honour in lending us four or five of your paintings...The object of the exhibition is to familiarise the many Egyptian students of our Institute, members of the British Community, and the general public with the best examples of contemporary Egyptian painting...May I add that I have for a long time been a keen admirer of your work of which I have seen alas only the few examples on view at the International Exhibition of 1949 and in the Musée d'Art Moderne of Cairo.'

(Extract from the letter from Sir Gilbert Inglefield to the artist, dated 2nd April 1949).

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