MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA) - photo 1
MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA) - photo 2

MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA)

Lot 8
31.10.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1308714
Lot 8 | MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA)
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£ 250 000 – 350 000
MAHMOUD SAÏD (1897, ALEXANDRIA - 1964, ALEXANDRIA)
Vue de la plage à Cassata en Grèce (View of the beach in Cassata in Greece)
titled in Arabic (on the reverse)
oil on board
23 ¾ x 28in. (60.4 x 71cm.)
Painted in 1963-1964




Provenance

The Artist.
Dr Hassan El Khadem and Nadia Mahmoud Saïd Collection, Alexandria (acquired from the above after 1964).
Samir El Khadem Collection, Alexandria (a gift from Nadia Mahmoud Saïd).
Thence by descent to Chirine El Khadem Collection.
Thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

B. Abu Ghazi, Mahmoud Saïd, Cairo 1972 (illustrated in colour, unpaged; titled Le Piree au crepuscule).
M. Al-Nabawi Al-Shal, Mahmoud Saïd, vol.1 of Prism Art Series, Giza 1982, plate 33 (illustrated in colour, unpaged; titled The harbor of Pire at twilight; dated 1964).
E. Dawastashy, Mahmoud Saïd: Memorial Book on the Pioneer of Contemporary Egyptian Painting - On the 100th Anniversary of his Birth, Cairo 1997, no. 214 (illustrated pp. 245 and 306; dated 1949).
N. Atallah, Mahmoud Saïd: Pioneer of Contemporary Egyptian Painting, vol.85 of Talae Misr series , 2010, p. 90 (illustrated p. 91).
R. O. Al-Shafei, The Artist Mahmoud Saïd: An Artistic and Analytical Study, University of Alexandria, Faculty of Fine Arts (MA Thesis), Alexandria 2012 (dated 1949).
V. D. Hess, H. Rashwan. Mahmoud Saïd Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1. Paintings, Milan 2015, no. P380 (illustrated in colour, p. 602; details illustrated in colour, pp. 604-605).



Exhibited

Alexandria, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Centre Culturel, À l’occasion du Douxième Anniversaire de la Révolution: Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres du peintre lauréat Mahmoud Saïd 1897-1964, 1964, no.114 or 115 (illustrated, unpaged; titled Vue des iles de Grèce).
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