ID 1308731
Lot 27 | HUSSEIN BICAR (1913, ALEXANDRIA - 2002, CAIRO)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
Misr al-Salaam (Egypt of Peace)
signed and dated in Arabic (lower left)
oil on canvas laid on board
24 x 19 5/8in. (61 x 49.8cm.)
Painted in 1995
Provenance
Private Collection, Alexandria (acquired directly from the artist in the late 1990s, thence by descent).
Anon. sale, Christie’s London, 25 October 2017, lot 9.
Dr Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Collection, Beirut.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
'Bicar exhibits ‘Egypt 95’ at the Spring Salon’ in Al Ahram, 9 April 1995 (illustrated, p. 30).
Exhibited
Cairo, Club Heliopolis, Spring Salon, 1995.
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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