Lot 7: ARTURO ZANIERI (ITALY, 1870-1955) Landscape in Alexandria oil on board,

ARTURO ZANIERI (ITALY, 1870-1955) Landscape in Alexandria oil on board, framed signed and dated 1935 (lower right) 30.5 x 38cm (12 x 14 15/16in).

Provenance: Property from the distinguished collection of Dr Hussein El Shaboury, Alexandria In 1915, a few of my friends and I starting meeting every Sunday morning at Zanieri’s studio in Alexandria, where we learned about the principles and foundations of art Mahmoud Said Said’s women are the queens in his kingdom, inspired by the depths of human imagination and the eternal image of instinct. [....] Said’s women are neither as tender as Botticelli’s, nor as restful as Ingres nor as daydreaming as Raphael’s. [......] They are strong willed and defiant creatures, with the blood of life running through their veins. Said’s muses are not as guilty as Masaccio’s Eve: they proudly exhibit their human, earthly nature Amal Nasr Mahmoud Said has reinvented an Egypt that is golden skinned, sensual, and sumptuous, a thinking Egypt with its delectable, appealing peasants, all looking for the Happy Isle, which in Said’s world was the lost glorious past of Egypt’s golden age Gabriel Boctor